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Kristen Henderson Quotes
“Once lively peonies now
wind-weary, and ragged
at the edges, hang their heavy
crowns; rain on their backs,
one final act, before
detaching from the stem
and falling down.”
“Time’s relativity
is considered and abandoned,
for the more revelatory
experiences of starlight
in strands, and pearly
floors that span as far as
absolute compassion...”
“Such is a community
of inviolable immunity, protected
from tampering or harpooning
mutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse
to shrink us (at the shoreline from our
lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging
scrutiny to sink us.”
“I offer a duo of free-range
monosyllabics: one being “wow” and the other being
“cool,” often said in sequence, spoken without drawl. Take them, leave them, or show me to the Dewer’s--”
“I write for pages,
get lost in the mezzanine
hidden from stages.”
“How close to ourselves
we were, and yet so far from
what we would become.”
“The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.” from Of My Maiden Smoking
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