Serena Morrigan

“A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.”
― Dean Young, Skid

“Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”
― Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

“You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.”
― Dean Young

“Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.”
― Dean Young, Fall Higher