Sign in with Facebook
This Geography of Thorns Quotes
This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond
by
J. Todd Hawkins2 ratings, 5.00 average rating, 0 reviews
This Geography of Thorns Quotes
Showing 1-2 of 2
“& then there are those scrap poems,
the ones too beautiful to finish writing,
ones that would bring us too great a sadness
if we ever thought they could really end.
There are many of those.
— J. Todd Hawkins, from “Hooks Brothers,” This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond (Poetry Society of Texas, 2020)”
― This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond
the ones too beautiful to finish writing,
ones that would bring us too great a sadness
if we ever thought they could really end.
There are many of those.
— J. Todd Hawkins, from “Hooks Brothers,” This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond (Poetry Society of Texas, 2020)”
― This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond
“Surely there’s a place to rest
a tortured mind.
Since sundown
I’ve been walking with these blues:
the blue of your eyes,
a well with no water.
— J. Todd Hawkins, from “When You Let Him in the Room,” This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond (Poetry Society of Texas, 2020)”
― This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond
a tortured mind.
Since sundown
I’ve been walking with these blues:
the blue of your eyes,
a well with no water.
— J. Todd Hawkins, from “When You Let Him in the Room,” This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond (Poetry Society of Texas, 2020)”
― This Geography of Thorns: Blues Poetry from the Mississippi Delta & Beyond
