Poetry = Anger x Imagination

We only know how to lose and be lost.

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.