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Thanksgiving Leftovers
This poem distills the quiet aftermath of a family gathering into an inventory of emotions and objects. Through slash-cut fragments, the poem captures fullness and fatigue, gratitude and disappointment, reverence and resentment. The list form mirrors cluttered memory, honoring tenderness without sentimentality and finding peace amid tension, exhaustion, and love after the guests go home.
Highway Sign
A roadside warning becomes a mirror for youth: risk, bravado, and the thin line between survival and legend. “Highway Sign” watches a familiar symbol of danger shift its meaning, tracing how boys inherit the night and the choices that mark them long after the sign stops warning.
Assembly
This poem evokes a feral summer rite where boys, suspended between childhood and adulthood, gather by fire and river under the August sun. Instinct, bravado, and ancestral memory rise briefly, then vanish at the call to order—leaving the landscape to remember what the boys cannot.
Instructions Not Included
This acrostic poem offers a raw look at the unpredictability of life—how we stumble through without a guide, learning the hard way. The poem explores the beauty and failures, the hands we’re dealt and the ones we throw away. With an unfiltered voice, I hope it captures the tension between chaos and resilience, stripping away illusions to reveal life as it is—unpolished, unscripted, and relentless.
Cattle Call
Sometimes, modern air travel is chaotic and can feel like the experience is stripped bare as we pass through an indifferent system that promises freedom. I think we can all relate to elements of this poem that hopefully capture the demonization of our journeys beneath the glamor of the travel culture.
Some Things I See
Sometimes, a poem is a response to another poem or a poet responding to another poet. This poem is in response to Lemn Sissay’s “Some Things I Like,” upon his calling attention to the undervalued, the unpolished, and rejected, where he closes with an imperative for the reader to “see.” This poem delivers a raw portrayal of societal decay, juxtaposed with hope, and sharp, vivid imagery to highlight a world filled with brokenness and contradiction.
That is Poetry
That Is Poetry explores the essence of poetry itself—how it captures fleeting moments, deep emotions, and raw truths. The poem reflects on language as an art form, shaping meaning beyond mere words.