Writers Are The Worst Of Cowards.

We hide in plain sight, behind the slimmest of letters.

Presentation is Everything

Do your best not to
understand too much.
Decided indifference
makes better poems.

Geometry of a Kiss

Lean in now
until your mouth’s
curvature abuts mine
and our borders converge
then merge in an osculation divine.

The New and Familiar

He sat on a lightly padded chair still as wood. Hidden beneath the leather, his toe tapped arrhythmically on its own…

Chemistry Problem

For Kim Addonizio

Double, double toil and trouble…

Homogeneity

We inhabit a pre-invented world.
Every new thing is instantly old.
The unexpected disrupts profit
and must only rarely occur.

Innocence.

When I was young,
I knew a lot about the world;
I knew about babies, and
walking home alone, and how
the busy streets of Morocco
smelt on…

You

Who are you?
Where are you?

Take Me

somewhere nice…

Where the dark doesn’t terrify me,
where the stars shine bright,
where my sadness is washed…

Phantom of Love

I love you hushed by my side,
as if you were not even present,
and you listen to me far off,
my words not even touching you.
It…