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Heather Christle

  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    I cried in front of a crowd—mortifying—while reading a poem I wrote for my dead friend Bill. He would have laughed. He would have liked it.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    The tears of white women are subject to specific scrutiny, because their weaponization has so often meant violence toward people of color, and black people in particular. The tears could be real, by which I mean physically present, or imagined, metaphorical. Whether they exist on the face or in the mind, the tears of a white woman can shift a room’s gravity. They set others falling to help her, to correct and punish those who would dare make her weep.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    I have always preferred parallel lines to perpendicular ones
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    Do you remember the hopelessness of watching a parent cry?
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a “woman’s weapon.” It has been a very long war.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    Some mornings I awake with an enormous sensation inside me and cannot identify whether the urge is to cry or write a poem or fuck someone. All at once? My body has cross-indexed the impulse.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    The word I have seen people use most frequently to describe the way elephants examine the bones of another when a herd comes across a skeleton is reverent.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    Some people will write about one thing as a way of not writing about something else. Like Tony Tost:
    I don’t know how to talk about my biological father, so I am going to describe the lake: it’s blue, with swans.17
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    I fear that to write so much about crying will tempt a universal law of irony to invite tragedy into my life.
  • Sasha Midlhas quoted2 years ago
    Some people think of reading poems and stories as a way to practice responding to imagined circumstances, without having to risk the dangers of real life.
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