SELECTION 2023-24.

Recent projects / Human connection / Unpublished.

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We’ll sit at the same tables
Maybe you’ll say something 
Tell me about a time years ago 
When this same moment 
Felt cleaner 
Before the water got some flavour 
Now we can’t stop 
Pouring the salt 
Into the lake

SEASON OF THE ARCHER

Uncover my face
Throw in my card
I long 
To be your right hand
The one 
Who pulls the bow
To form the perfect arch
Don’t deny me 
The right of satisfaction 
Where an arrow 
meets 
A perfect destination
To swim in water as 
deep 
As the ocean
No narrower a river 
For such an archer 
Will do

GOOD HEALTH

These words to you 
are between me and God
I pray you’re well, |
that you’re constantly loved, 
that each word passed 
between your lips to another 
means well 
I hope so much so 
that your heart is routinely swelled 
from the size of love 
which you routinely receive  
From day to day 
everyday loved and well
I hope no soul makes you tired, 
think the world of as unwell 
beyond something we can mend
I pray your parents are in good health 
That they still kiss you on your forehead, 
At least when your mother 
can reach to the heavens 
your head resides in
I pray you haven’t missed any timed meetings with Him 
I pray your exchanges with Him are done with ease, 
with kindness
With forever love and good health
I pray I pray I pray 
That I’ll find you in good health
I’ll pray you love me in ever better health 
I pray we surpass the love of that your parents held
I pray each night ends with a kiss

IN PREFERENCE OF DYING ALONE

I need to be held, like
I need to be held 
In the way
Which only 
Two adults
Laying 
Under a loud fan 
In a humid country 
While it rains in August 
Could understand 
Why their skin 
Is still touching
In such cruel heat

ALL IS WELL

Words I should have said 
Instead of the words I mentioned
In the heat of the moment
To hope to reassure 
My counterpart
A kindred spirit  
A love
That all is well
Because all truly is well
And it is the way life is intended 
At this time
Between us 
Right here 
I should have said
This strain of this feeling 
Isn’t absent
Speaking of this in lesser measures
To reassure and preserve
What was here 
Before the unspoken 
Rather it is present
In unknown measures 
In unknown depth
That this is more than okay 
Despite why it exists
That this particular strain
Of this particular feeling 
Has departed
Because it exists
Continues to exist
Exists in my chest 
Down to my stomach 
Despite its root
Regardless of it’s destination
This is more than okay 
I wish I hadn’t said 
A particular part is absent
She still lingers in the air
Despite any destination 
And this is more than okay
I have rarely been at peace
Since 

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