Best 7 quotes of Donika Kelly on MyQuotes

I am not land or timber nor are you ocean or celestial body, but rather we are the small animals we have always been.

I have never known a field as wild as your heart. -From "Love Poem: Centaur

Refuse the old means of measurement. Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen. -From "Out West

What is the metaphor for two animals sharing the same space? Marriage? We share a practice, you and I, a series of postures.

What the tongue wants. Supplication and the burn of crystals expanding. To be, always, a waxing, a waning, and, in waxing again, not ever the same. Waste and deferral. Accumulation and deferral. You are flesh, and you are water, though of the flesh, you are only muscle, and of the water, you are saltless and clean. Be a caution, a reckoning, be a thing that breaks before it bends.

You bear a sword and shield, remind me of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast will your blade free next? What call will you loose from another woman's throat?

You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem. All of America is inside you, a catalogue of lives and land and burrowing things. -From "Catalogue