“I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away”
— John J. Geddes
“I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance”
— John J. Geddes
“Be careful—my heart is broken—and you could fall in”
— John J. Geddes
“the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same”
— John J. Geddes
“I’m mad with loneliness and you’ve been haunting me all day”
— John J. Geddes
“my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude”
— John J. Geddes
“deprived of magic, wonder wanes”
— John J. Geddes
“I get mixed up with the life we led and the life I imagined”
— John J. Geddes
“had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes”
— John J. Geddes
“children need calm—they’re artists”
— John J. Geddes
“…glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain…”
— John J. Geddes
“…within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been…”
— John J. Geddes