“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her exit from this planet for a week? I've got places to do, people to be. Then grief hit… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier shining at… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Hey you, dragging the halo- how about a holiday in the islands of grief? Tongue is the word I wish to have with you.… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just stays there… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Disasterology The Badger is the thirteenth astrological sign. My sign. The one the other signs evicted: unanimously. So what? ! Think I want to… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I walk behind well-dressed women on cold, December mornings and shovel the steamy exhalations pluming… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes. — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
