“ I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speakBut I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eatSo this is my wh… Andrea Gibson
“ Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean… Andrea Gibson
“ And I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons fo… Andrea Gibson
“ Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? Andrea Gibson
“ Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. Andrea Gibson
“ That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. Andrea Gibson
“ We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know wha… Andrea Gibson
“ I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has a shorelineand every shoreline has a tideth… Andrea Gibson
“ I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.Tell me why you loved them,then tell me why they loved you. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirroron a day you’re… Andrea Gibson
“ A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon. Andrea Gibson
“ And I say,I crash in to things in the darkEven when the lights are onAnd I am wrong more often than I am writingAnd even then, I am often wrongBut when my friends are in the bathroom at the barRolling… Andrea Gibson
“ The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. Andrea Gibson
“ ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly?do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves?does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother?when the sand in the desert has been melted dow… Andrea Gibson
“ The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a dayI would be grounded, rooted.Said my head would not keep flying awayto where the darkness lives.The psy… Andrea Gibson
“ My mouth is a fire escape.The words coming outdon’t care that they are naked.There is something burning in there. Andrea Gibson
“ ...It’s hard to watchthe game we make of love,like everyone’s playing checkerswith their scars,saying checkmatewhenever they get outwithout a broken heart.Just to be clearI don’t want to get outwithou… Andrea Gibson
“ I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like. Andrea Gibson
