“Every love poem, I think, is a poem of grace. Because you can spend years in silence not knowing how to say I love you. Because you can spend years knowing what you need but not asking for it. Because you can spend years lifting, only to realize that you spent years lifting the wrong thing. Because someone’s hands can spend a lifetime in the blistered existence of the everyday only to spend a minute, years later, making calligraphy out of your skin. Because it only takes a second to be brought to your knees. Because it only takes a second for someone to lift you.”
— Devin Kelly, from “Ross Gay’s ‘How to Fall in Love With Your Father.’ Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse (22 November 2020)(via bostonpoetryslam)
