Maggie Millner

A Love Story in Poems

Couplets

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“When I was with her, the physical experience of my pleasure—

—seemed to make the nauseous question of whether I was in possession of a clear and unified self mostly irrelevant.”

“And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love 

“Sexuality is, after all, a formal concern: finding for one’s time on earth a shape that feels more native than imposed—a shape in which desire, having chosen it, can multiply.”

“Love has been, above all things, the engine of self-knowledge in my life—and even after everything, is still what makes the rest worth suffering.”

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