Stacie Cassarino Quotes

• “Remember Rio de Janeiro, the size of God’s hand, sardines fleshed-open at the market, the way I entered you and moved inside? Looking down, is this the kind of density you can live with? What is the slightness of our bodies to stay, to be good at loving a second time? My mouth pretends it is an oar when it lives inside your mouth, but you are far away.”

  Stacie Cassarino

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• “Dear god, it is years since I've prayed.
  I understand the birds are holy.
  I understand the body leads us to love, or
  
  this is one way of knowing the world.”

  Stacie Cassarino

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• “We should insist that letting go is one form of hope. Here, defiance in a stand of evergreens.”

  Stacie Cassarino

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• “In what do you believe? In September's slight motion
  of particulars, in the weight of birds,
  in lust, propulsion, maps
  that lie.”

  Stacie Cassarino

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• “In this fog, it’s true, we are made-up of less than bone.”

  Stacie Cassarino

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