Josh Simmons quoted Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories …
If I Should Fail by Ada Limón
The ivy eating the fence line, each tendril multiplying by green tendril, if I should fail the seeds lifted out and devoured by bristled marauders, blame only me and the strip of sun which bade me come to lie down snakelike on my belly, low snake energy, and be tempted by the crevices between the world and not world, if I should fail know I stared long into fractures and it seemed to me a mighty system of gaps one could slither into and I was made whole in that knowledge of a sleek nothingness.
— Hurting Kind by Ada Limon (Page 72)