5 Quotes by Christopher Cokinos

This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

We’re all eating stars! Every day! What a marvelous annulus of accident and need.