The bars of a mausoleum

I Just Need to Wait it Out — I would have given a lot to be there when this happened, but that would have prevented it entirely, so it’s for the best. My dad was having breakfast by himself after church one Sunday, some years ago now, and as he was wrapping up a little old lady from…

Feel the pain of the sun? — How long will the angel resting on the tomb have to pray — to release the soul it guards to salvation? Will the angel vanish, a figure in the night, remembered in half thought memory of - “I remember beauty here? Or do I recall wrong?” Does the angel that…

AKA my very cleverly planned mid-life crisis — For my 39th birthday I decided I wanted to go see a dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History museum with the two friends I always spend my birthday with. It talked about paleontological digs in the arctic. As my initial dream job as a child was being a palentologist, until…

Bury me under a tree —

I’ll never meet them now — Even if someday I produce a poetry collection without a single reference to you — to what you did to my heart — you will still be there, in every line, a dark trace on the x-ray, the damage visible after healing, for what measure healing is. …

Does it actually count as a breakup if you may or may not have died? — Earlier this year I finished playthrough number… I honestly don’t know of the Mass Effect trilogy. It had been a few years since I’d sat down and played it, despite the fact that it’s very much my favorite gaming experience. …

Possibly the only thing I care about anymore — During the initial COVID lockdown, I happened upon something that looked designed to appeal to my interests — a publicity still from the show ‘The Untamed.’ It depicted two beautiful Chinese men with long hair and long robes holding weapons, and it came with the tag that it was a…

A new poem, after so long It’s strange to say I was ‘with you’ though that is the colloquialism. When I was never fully, never truly building a life with you in a way others understood — (in a way I wanted). But even when we lived apart I was with…