Virginia Petrucci Quotes

#1. You crawled inside my
ribs to die.

Giant becomes squirrel
becomes a dirt-wet girl

feverishly alive.

Virginia Petrucci

#2. You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes.

Virginia Petrucci

#3. My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,
my harlot heritage.

Marbles: lost, no rescue search.

Your heart: blooming thorns,
and a stolen grocery cart.

Virginia Petrucci

#4. I like my things
hurried and haunted. Night tea
darktime.

Sacred geometry, secret geometry
petal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

Virginia Petrucci

#5. You were, are
cactus tourism.

meeting you: granular

fractals borrowed from oceans.

Virginia Petrucci

#6. Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

Virginia Petrucci

#7. Here's to adrenaline.
Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol.
Here's to treasured pain and purple rain.
Here's to chasing our souls,

burning across to sky.

Here's to drinking the ash as it falls,
and not asking why.

Virginia Petrucci

#8. Numbered are the days
of hunger stricken strays
a woman's curving taste
a paper police state.

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#9. It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

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#10. If only you
could see me as the Devil does:

palatable & raw;
chasing a chance blue moon

Virginia Petrucci