“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Every morning the maple leaves. Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other. Every morning the… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things. You wanted to be in love and he… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Do you want it? Do you want anything I have? Will you throw me to the ground like you mean it, reach… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him. Green eyes flecked with yellow, dried leaves on the surface of… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And… — richard siken Copy Share Image
“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses—I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one night, will… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“The stranger says there are no more couches and he will have to sleep in your bed. You try to warn him, you tell… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in the woods?… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio, how we rolled… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
