There are so many marvelous lines in a single book of poetry. This one happens to be Milkweed Editions‘ 2022 publication of The Hurting Kind by poet laureate, Ada Limón.
Among those I thoroughly enjoy, and wanna remember for and have easy access to later are:
- It’s selfish, I know, but I want to be / the fixer now.
- my sad privacy / returning like the bracing, empty wind
- He is perfect there, my father / in the photo.
- Is it time / that moves in me now? A sense of ache and unraveling,
- That is, if you go in for ownership. My, my, my.
- The men are laughing between chain saw growls
the metal jaws of machinery. It is a sound that sounds like killing. - life was a series of warnings, but also magic.
- No one ever questions a Mexican / in an orange shirt, he said,
- I thought power was something you could control.
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 