Jalina Mhyana

Quotes

• “If I must die young, bury me in a music box. I’ll be the pale ballerina with dirtin her hair. Attach my painless feet to...”
• “My husband and I have always been good at creative visualization. Before we quit drugs and got married he’d place tabs o...”
• “I can’t remember what I’ve done with my lingerie. I look in the containers under my bed, as if my sexual self has been r...”
• “Our divorce was an optical illusion, surely, because I am often still there, in my old home with my family. I can so eas...”
• “All of the sudden, we were a grown-up married couple! Like little figures in a doll's house, we sat there dazed, in awe,...”
• “It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people’s invisible sicknesses ...”
• “With each kiss in the cold house 
we swallow clouds of breath – exhaled spirit, speech bubbles
 we’d rather lick away 
t...”
• “We played with the moon all night, painting faces on its blank cheek, shining its spotlight into sleeping people’s windo...”
• “We could scan each car for terrorists and lovers she could lean into my camouflage her head resting on woven trees. Whe...”
• “I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank Zappa” and “window onto a mag...”
• “Everything was numbered: the lenses, the painterly sky, the milligrams of my panic pills. I had prescription eyes that a...”
• “Veins of ivy scale stones,find footholds butthe caretaker cuts earth short, peels creepers from Cotswold rock and props ...”
• “Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,boulders, and caves where Kami nature spiritsminister to congregations of saki...”
• “I can’t pray or weigh my words right; doomsday is here my friend, but you’re immune. We sufferfor you. I’m weaving crown...”
• “I dreamed in night vision; whiteflowers of nocturnalgun fire – day residue shot to hell. If I held my dreamsto a windows...”