“Do not actually burn the bra. / Not on the fire escape. / Not in a trash can. / This isn’t an episode of Friends.”

“I will love you well in wasteless Tesla circuit”

“the solar system has taken billions of years to live like this”

“A priest, a punk, and a poet stand at the foot of my bed, / each self a blue-eyed beast I cannot evict from my head.”

“your family redid the lower level / of your house. when I visited two / springs ago, the relics of our memories / had faded”