While This Human Engine Waits

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My poetry chapbook, While This Human Engine Waits, has now been released by Epigraph Magazine! 

Quite a few of poems selected have been published individually throughout the past four years, but this collection (and the sequencing) took a little time. The most impressive piece of the whole work for me was the wonderful cover photograph and design. Thank you to Lianne Guerra Jepson and Thomas Doughty for lending their amazing talents to create such a striking cover.

Not Everyone Gets To Name Something They Love

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The traditional text, thought impairs

 

That everyone was searching

 

That full love

found things

He was new, but entire

That full love

found entire years

 

I told a star

The photograph was missing

An emanation

A radiation like umbilical links

 

We think it

We turn words

We are abstract and possible

 

Forgive them, phrases

formulate a rhythm