14 Quotes by Jeffrey McDaniel

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

But one kiss levitates above all the others. Theintersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

We didn’t deny the obvious,but we didn’t entirely accept it either.I mean, we said hello to it each morningin the foyer. We patted its little headas it made a mess in the backyard,but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed upat 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 coversand pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred?

I run through snow and turn around just to make sure I've got a past.

I want to rip off your logicand make passionate sense to you.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.