"Expectation rises
with courage
in the sun's rays."
“And still we sling
digital mud
at human targets…”
“Absence is not nothing.”
“Isolated,
we coddle our disgust.”
“Grief is more than gone-ness.
It is a relentless drip through granite…”
“There’s a comfort to being wrong.”
“The bullet came out sideways.”
“Why can’t you hear
the words I can’t say?”
“‘No’, I whisper.
The word so forbidden.”
"I gather strength from lengths behind,
the doors I've faced and entered."
