Dean Young Tag

Before Fall Higher’s table of contents Dean Young booms out a call to action: hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height As soon as I came across those lines I snapped a grainy picture on my prehistoric flip-phone and sent them to the person who knows most clearly my errors, how much of that dumbass I can be. This book belonged in my apartment. It was meant to be poured over on a couch, read with dinner. His words and I line-danced toward and from each other, catching promising glimpses between partner switches: When you finally admit you’re broken, Can I come back up now? asks the chair with its leg snapped in the basement and Don’t even get me started, says the sky. - (“Irrevocable Ode”)