Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Jeffrey McDaniel, from “The Archipelago of Kisses” (with thanks to passade and fleurishes)

After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Quiet World” (adapted from gammasandgerunds)

I’ve been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.

Jeffrey McDaniel, Letter To The Woman Who Stopped Writing Me Back (thank you, simplerhymes)