title: Dreaming in the Maze of Love-Grief-Madness: Poems
author:  Stephen Fife 
description: "Stephen Fife's poem are powerful, edgy and utterly alive" --Thomas Lux<br /><br />"This book bleeds the passions of youth... It is an offering, a sign, brilliantly naive yet profound." --Billy Hayes, author of Midnight Express<br /><br />"A testimony to the vitality of the poetic spirit for poets of any age or Age, and a tribute to this particular poet's intense energy and vision..." --Lee Slonimsky, author of Wandering Electron
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  catching fireflies
   
  Jessyca Thibault
  
   
   
   
   
  Other Books By Jessyca Thibault
  doll eyes.
  glass girl.
  plastic heart.
  Forever Mark
  unsweetened
  spilled sugar
  sweet tea
  
   
   
   
   
   
  Reading these poems, as I sit in our bed, minutes from having your
  arms wrapped around me, is surreal. It’s amazing how the brain works to
  patch bullet holes. Like band-aids over a scraped knee. I’d forgotten all the
  knives that pierced me. The tears that poured out of me. Waterfalls, not
  faucets. Rusted and curved, not shiny and straight. It’s amazing how the
  brain works to torment even after the trauma has ended. You go from
  flashbacks of happiness clawing marks into your skull as you sit sobbing on a
  bathroom floor, to gasping for air in the middle of the night as you lie in bed
  – flashbacks of that girl on the bathroom floor haunting you, even as his body
  curves protectively around you.
  
   
   
   
   
   
  To love is to feel. To love is to know that those feelings might not always be
  kind. To love is 