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End of April 2024: Poem for You

Hi out there. April is National Poetry Month and also National Make Sophie Incredibly Busy Month. April is also my yearly reminder to never let people forget I majored in…

Resolution

When I brush my teeth I think about dyingand how the seafloor’s dissolvingand how it rains a blanket so we stay inside, my posture as bad as a gallon of…

Direct Address

I take every thought of you to the very end like a train, or a space shuttle, idle and warming the dark side of a planet, a phone book under…

Survival

In a zombie movie you panic and clamor for paper. Blood(?) seeps through the door but you need to write a friend and just can’t put it off. You fumble…

Reverb

Everyone returns. Lately I cannot stay awake enough, the coffee eats itself to bits, I missed the blood moon and blamed the weather. Turns out I missed the rain too.…

January

I am not vicious I love to stare when light hits the room across the street as if by an alien sun. I like to think those people get the…

Time Warp New Year

I have been hungry to write this poem ever since November clipped the days blue and short. The horrible thing is that…   I walked past the General Grant Memorial…

Untitled (In Winter)

Last year around this time it was blueish and wet, the same forks in the same rough road. The sun is soft now, frugal with light. If I could jar…

New Year

I am seeing you in the broth again: the best days are rising to the top like good fats and clear onions. I almost bring down my tongue   to…

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