Richard Siken Quotes

2013-01-05 1:30:23 ¶ ●

If the window is on your right, you are in your own bed. If the window
is over your heart, and it is painted shut, then we are breathing
river water.

2013-01-11 1:30:39 ¶ ●

Scheherazade

Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake

              and dress them in warm clothes again.
      How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running
until they forget that they are horses.
             It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
      it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio,
                   how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
                                                                                  to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
      we’re inconsolable.
                                        Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
                                                            Tell me we’ll never get used to it.

2013-01-17 1:30:46 ¶ ● ⬈

brontideandlevin:

Reminds me of a line from Richard Siken…’he raises the moon on a crane for effect, cue the violins’

2013-01-22 1:30:26 ¶ ● ⬈

sisimaclachlan:

Evidence of a love that transcends hunger

My new tattoo…

2013-01-30 1:30:28 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

“Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated
cities at the center of me, and here is the center
of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we
can drink from, but I can’t go through with it.
I just don’t want to die anymore.”

Saying Your Names - Richard Siken