Ask Me

A handwritten "Poetry" sign on a table of secondhand books.

Join me here in the abyss – in the fecund depth of knowingness,
The deep blue-green of the great void
where words fall into and are lost forever.
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Ever Have Those Moments?

A handwritten "Poetry" sign on a table of secondhand books.

ever have those moments when silence is an interminable sentence
and even the stereo full blast can’t drown the shame of your own being?
when agitation curdles in your stomach and jitters outwards
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High Dive

A handwritten "Poetry" sign on a table of secondhand books.

It was following two years of celibacy
and two, two-month “relationships” that I met her.
She asked of me a hundred things on our first date
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