Poppies: Quotes

• "I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals,

  spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade

  of yellow bias binding around your blazer.” - Poppies
• "I rounded up as many white cat hairs

  as I could, smoothed down your shirt's” - Poppies
• "I wanted to graze my nose

  across the tip of your nose, play at

  being Eskimos like we did when

  you were little."- Poppies
•  "All my words

  flattened, rolled, turned into felt,

  slowly melting." - Poppies
• "threw it open, the world overflowing

  like a treasure chest." - Poppies
• "released a song bird from its cage"- Poppies
• "skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy

  making tucks, darts, pleats" - Poppies
• "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial,

  leaned against it like a wishbone.” - Poppies
• “The dove pulled freely against the sky, 

  an ornamental stitch, I listened, hoping to hear

  your playground voice catching on the wind.”- Poppies