you found me in the bookstoreat a mall swarming with citizen guardspossible…
for mesuffering is a comfortable seatI sit there with my jasmine teawatch the…
in the hole a voice coosthat no matter what I dothere is no other placethat will have me.
you tell methat my poem is not A Poemit’s something less-words strung togetherbearing some truth…
what they don’t tell you is thisyour life begins to take its shapemuch sooner…
I could describe your love in many wordsadjectives warring with one another
thank you for interrupting meinterminablymaking me do your workstop everything else and…
one dayI left the silence between usundisturbed.
I am the dragonfly on your longest night.I am your shade under a mango tree on a searing day.I am the power…
first you were a delicate substancehelpless from most angles, wieldedby the force of life surging through