thebegats:“I’ve always been jealous of my parents’ looks, actually. Both of
thebegats: “I’ve always been jealous of my parents’ looks, actually. Both of them were devastatingly beautiful. And beautiful in a way that I still don’t think I inherited. (Don’t tell the ghosts in my family what I just told you.) After meeting my mother once, a middle school teacher said to me, the next day, ‘Your mother is gorgeous. What happened to you?’” Saeed Jones spoke with me for my Family Tree series at Tin House. His Prelude to Bruise is one of the best first poetry collections I’ve read, and it fits comfortably in a large stocking. Just saying. -- source link