It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the. Words, huh? What a miracle it is to be alive and to feel. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glck.

Crush, while a book, is a book of poems, but I didn't think a little variety on this sub would hurt! I hope you guys liked these, and I hope I didn't step on any toes by not posting this straight to r/poetry. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces. Heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you Richard Siken, Crush 376 likes Like All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. He touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your You’re in a car with a beautiful boy,Īnd you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying toĬhoke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and Ible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourselfĪ grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. And you feel like you’ve done something terr. 'You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves This one is the ending of a poem called Scheherzade. 'Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. I've been thinking about this one for a few days, especially with the recent developments of marriage equality in the states. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division,Īnd you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do,īecause you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore.' 'The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you,Īnd you deserve it, you do, and you know this, and you are ready to die in this swimming poolīecause you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means your life is over anyway. I get extremely excited when I read words that make me feel, so I hope these give you some light. There isn't much about it on this subreddit, and being an overzealous sharer of literature, I wanted to change that. Richard Siken wrote a collection of work titled Crush.

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