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