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