this book made me want to be a poet. to make magic with words. to carve out beautiful, vivid, life-filled moments, to define grief or lust or both together just as the author does. so many in this collection were absolutely gorgeous. I'm definitely coming back to this again later. i read this as an ebook and i have to get the paperback so i can annotate it and comeback to it asap. i connected to so many poems in this collection here are just some of my favorite quotes.

“I relied on a Miracle Fish, once, in New York City, to tell me my fortune. That was before I knew it was my body’s water that moved it, that the massive ocean inside me was what made the fish swim.” 

 "J said, You don’t believe in God? And I said, No. I believe in this connection we all have to nature, to each other, to the universe. And she said, Yeah, God. And how we stood there, low beasts among the white oaks, Spanish moss, and spider webs, obsidian shards stuck in our pockets, woodpecker flurry, and I refused to call it so. "

 “I relied on a Miracle Fish, once, in New York City, to tell me my fortune. That was before I knew it was my body’s water that moved it, that the massive ocean inside me was what made the fish swim.”