spare a key
you industrial
revolution
you need the split
bark
not the forest
not the wood
not the temple
not the gate
unlock the room
you need you
(originally published in Randomly Accessed Poetics, Spring 2017)
edited
A Karaoke Machine for Your Birthday
the songbook is full
of songs left to sing
we didn’t wait long to end
the song present in the now
unwrapped from the box
where we sang tenuous tones
(originally published in The Piedmont Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Winter 2017)