“Everyone says,Come to your senses, and I do, of you.Every touch electric, every taste you,every smell, even burning sugar, everycry and laugh. Toothpicked samplesat the farmers’ market, every melon,plum, I come undone, undone.”
— Dean Young
“Just because we have birds inside us, we don’t have to be cages.”
— Dean Young
“I still love the sound of breaking,the tearing of the page”
— Dean Young
“You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.”
— Dean Young
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don’t have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers”
— Dean Young
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don’t have to be cages.”
— Dean Young
“You bend the nailBut keep hammering becauseHammering makes the world”
— Dean Young
“?I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo’s cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.”
— Dean Young
“When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.”
— Dean Young