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Abandon – a poem
INTRO: This is an ecstatic poem I wrote a few years ago about letting go—about two people abandoning every rule, expectation, and old life to build something new together. It moves through…
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Of Love and War – a poem
Of love and war unfolds across three movements where intimacy becomes shelter, resistance, and quiet defiance. Against the machinery and rumors of war, the lovers claim their own country of touch, tenderness, and…
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Sepulveda – a poem
This poem traces the uneasy space between longing and fear—the rising water in the shower, the anxious dog, the coyote under a streetlight, and the trembling that comes when memory and anxiety won’t…
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Six Poems for Sveta, the Day She Had Her Epiphany.
A six-poem epiphany cycle exploring a surreal and impossible relationship with Sveta. These poems move through moonlight, telegrams, spinning hearts, fractured responsibility, and the tension between desire and distance. Humor and ache sit…
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The Favor – a prose poem
A man waits at a diner while the woman he loves meets another man in a motel room. A poem about devotion, self-sacrifice, and the ache of loving without possession.
