Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn t… - Andrea Gibson

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

"Whenever they ask why we stayed together for so long I say, "I don't know. I just know that we cried at the exact same time in every movie. I know we blushed every day for the first two years. I know I always stole the covers and she never woke me up.

I remember the way love
used to glow on my skin
before he made his way in
now every touch feels like a sin

I decided I was going to read only social justice poetry through my entire set. But when I was making my set list it hit me that the simple existence of the word 'she' in my love poem made it a political poem. Isn't that criminal? Isn't it criminal that love is a political thing? That the heart is a political thing?