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