Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. “But one kiss levitates above all the others. Which do you rush to and comfort first?” - Jeffrey McDaniel She is a poet, novelist, visual artist and the author of The Summer that Melted Everything, Betty, and On the Savage Side. But suppose you hear your lover scream in the next room, and you run in and his head is on the floor next to his body. 5 books1,342 followers 13 notes, 13 highlights in this book TIFFANY MCDANIEL is an Ohio native whose writing is inspired by the rolling hills and woods of the land she knows. Jeff is known for his ability to capture a basic sentimentdesire, grief, self-recriminationand turn it into the single most powerful, gut-punching line of poetry you’ve ever read. The same holds true if you heard the scream, ran in and saw his hand or -god forbid- his whole arm. Jeffrey McDaniel There is no poet quite like Jeffrey McDaniel. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. Like The first time I saw you, my heart fell. Even when Im dead, Ill swim through the Earth, like a mermaid. Jeffrey McDaniel tags: devotion, fidelity, love, obsession. Your absence weighs more than someone elses presence Jeffrey McDaniel Picture Quote. You wouldn't rush to the pinkie and say, 'Darling, are you OK? ' No, you'd wrap your arms around his shoulders and worry about the pinkie later. Even when Im dead, Ill swim through the Earth. “If you heard your lover scream in the next room and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle of blood. Many nights the obvious showed up at our bedroom door, in its pajamas, unable to sleep, in need of a hug, and we just stared at it like an Armenian, or even worse— hid beneath the covers and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.” - Jeffrey McDaniel sister Shavet Winters, and brothers, Fernandos McDaniel Jr., and Jeffrey McDaniel. We patted its little head as it made a mess in the backyard, but we never nurtured it. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. “We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.” - Jeffrey McDaniel I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. “When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams.
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