Poems

Individual poems

Borrowed Time

Borrowed TimeWe both knew this wasn’t going anywhere permanent and that was fine,She had a life in Denver and I had a lease on mine,In Chicago, and we had a conference in between us for the week,And by the third night we had found exactly what we’d seek.She knocked on my hotel door at eleven

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Blackout Hour, Aftermh Skin

Blackout Hour, Aftermath SkinUnder flickering motel neon, with stained sheets for an altar and the air thick as unkept ohs,I held you in a trembling hush, chasing the last of my faith in flesh,Hands fumbling for absolution between bruises and back-arched sin,Every breath a confession, every kiss a theft, the night hungry for any ache

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Apathy Book Twelve Closes

Apathy Book Twelve ClosesA hundred eighty songs and twelve books closed—the grey in every register, disclosedacross the twelve sets of the fifteen,the flat interior examined, the seenand the unseen of the not-quite-trying,the adequate documented, the underlyingweight of the grey in its full catalogue.Twelve books. The grey: my monologue.Apathy Book Twelve closes—the greycontinues past the final

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Aftermh The New Dawn

Aftermath: The New DawnHours ler, rumors swept the corridors: a faction of Inspectors had seized control, declaring an end to the Regulions of Affection. Citizens in the cellblock pressed faces to the bars, hope igniting where fear had reigned. Mira and Jonah were released—undefiled, their hands finally free.They emerged into the dawn’s pale light, blinking

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