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Thank you my fellow poet
I appreciate you being on this journey with me since nearly the beginning! Thank you for sharing this post, it made me smile knowing you remembered my love for Dylan š„°š
Poetry. Prose. Spoken Word.
Last Night Again, page 60.
(I always appreciate knowing which pieces speak to you, and if you bring it to my attention, Iāll read it along with youš£ļø).
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Poetry. Prose. Spoken Word.
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Poetry. Prose. Spoken Word.
There is a grammar to alleyways that the main street never learns. A private language written in brick and gravel, in the rest between buildings where the city untucks its shirt and doesnāt have to look neat.
I love these passage ways. The way morning light arrives late and leaves early, painting the mortar in amber before retreating. The gravel beneath your feet crunches like cornflakes. Maybe the noise is the only proof that some people still choose to pass through, that some prefer this walk over the polished boulevard beyond.
Even the walls are Art. Brick once stacked, then written across with thoughts by hands long gone. Run your fingers across it , across the layered paintā¦ someoneās first love, their first tag, someoneās masterpiece, someoneās goodbye. It brings alive a new life. It shows us how even a dark alley breathes in color, how graffiti converses with it, blooms like a tattoo across concrete skin.
Walk the back way with me. Let the rocks shift beneath your boots. This gravel holds the rain long after the sky forgot what made it sad. And the brick holds the heat of July well into the orange of October.
And the Art, the Art holds everything.
The longing. The love. The anger.
The alley is every cityās true diary.
And itās beautiful, isnāt it?
This refusal to be something clean.
02/28/2026
The past few months have been nothing short of fabulous. Iāve had the honor of meeting and engaging with so many local authors, voices that are brave, creative, and rooted right here in our community. This is important to me, because I genuinely believe storytelling not only matters but saves lives!!
With that being said, on March 9th, Iāll be with where we will be taking the conversation to more intimate places. We will go a little deeper, and explore the trauma of intimate partner gun violence and the transformation that ultimately helped inspire some of the poems in my collection, Love Letters & Pocket Knives.
Join me and PFLAG as we continue creating caring, safe, and affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ people and for those who stand with them.
Iād love to see you there. š
(please contact or me for meeting location details).
Copies of Love Letters & Pocket Knives will be available for purchase at the event.
Love Letters & Pocket Knives, page 81
Title: January 29th
Have a copy? Pick a page, Iāll read it out loud š£ļø
05/03/2023
outside its late spring
June bugs batter themselves against my clean kitchen windows
inside we kiss like summer flowers
vibrant and temporary
knowing nothing great
is immortal
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Poems. Prose. Spoken word.
04/25/2023
Poems. Prose. spoken Word.
Space keeping.
04/24/2023
Poetry. Prose. Spoken word.
The unifying theme that emerges over the course of this entire work is that of redemption. Augustine also believed that the human race is united in sin.. to me, that is pretty powerful.
04/17/2023
Poems. prose. Spoken word.
You say I am there
but you arenāt here
not like I am, not like this.
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