There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my cigarettes with your eyes. It isn’t as simple as me climbing into the window to leave six ounces… — 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
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
