The Dark Between Stars

Poems

Atticus

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781982104887
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus. Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.

STARS

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

—VINCENT VAN GOGH

He laughed,

my darling

you will never be unloved by me

you are too well tangled in my soul.

I don’t know the truth of you

she whispered

but I have that feeling in my stomach

you get before your whole life changes.

Our love happened to us all at once

we had no time to think

we were caught up in the adventure of it

and hadn’t a moment to spare.

The first time

I walked in Paris

there was a great remembering

of a thousand different dreams.

I woke before her

and she slept on as the sun rose

spilling light across our bed

she was an angel in my sheets

the girl I would draw

if given a thousand years

and only a promise

she might one day come to life.

THE

PRETTIEST

EYES

SPARKLE

FROM THE

INSIDE

OUT.

She was an endless source of

beautiful ideas and epiphanies

I wanted to live forever

in the quiet inspiration

of her existence.

In the mornings

she taught me French

and after breakfast she would paint

and I would write

and as the spring rain fell on the skylight

and the tea steamed from its mugs

my heart hummed

to the music

of the dream

we’d found.

IT’S ALWAYS SAFE

TO DO NOTHING

WHEN IT RAINS.

There is no safer place I ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Stars
• Between
• The Dark
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright