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Jeffrey MCDaniel

Jeffrey MCDaniel Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Jeffrey MCDaniel

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Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Poet

Total quotes: 3

“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”

— Jeffrey MCDaniel

Tagged: Trees, Honesty, Winter, Letting Go

“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

“In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.”

— Jeffrey MCDaniel, The Quiet World

Tagged: Love, Poetry, Lovers, Missing, Melancholia, Pain, Longing, Desire

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