I know this / is our first date / and that’s a lot / to share over nachos, / but I’d ideally tell you everything about me, / preferably before desser… - 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 shoreline
and every shoreline has a tide
that is constantly returning
to wake the songbirds in our hands,
to wake the music in our bones,
to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river
that has to run through the center of our hearts
to find its way home.

"I know some people build their safety with walls. Me, I'm into demolition - whatever tears the walls down. I have a hard time kissing without that kind of dust in the air. I see a wrecking ball and see a wedding ring, think, "Look at the size of that stone.

Almost always they answer god or booze. One I don’t tolerate. The other, I’m told, doesn’t tolerate me.