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