Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.
Ada Limón, Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning
what I have done is risked everything for that hour, that hour in the black night, where one flashing light looks like love,
Ada Limón, Glow
and I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
Ada Limón, Before
How imagining death can make it easier
to live and I agree and say, It’s called die
before you die.
- Ada Limón, The Long Ride
Every moon will be a moon of surrender
Ada Limón, The Noisiness of Sleep
You're the muscle / I cut from the bone and still the bone / remembers, still it wants (so much it wants)
Ada Limón, In A Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me
I was suddenly some safer form of fire.
Ada Limón, What Remains Grows Ravenous
and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.
Ada Limón, Mowing
"If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire."
Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things