with a heart that aches to say the… let them sled over my lips know the peace of their meaning it’s been a long time since i last… i miss saying them

early this morning fresh was the only way we could imagine ourselves soft to the teeth

he came out of the New Orleans shadows first went the grocer and

he remembers the grapes as they would vine through his blo… like galaxies looking for a home welcomed with a kiss from his alwa… stars tickled his heart

i almost did not make it to this p… i was stuck in the glory of old verses cadavers un-buried and admired like trophies

going out for Golden Gloves when i was a teenager i trained as hard as anyone paid close attention to the scienc… my coach

let’s say you’re trying to go somewhere who isn’t? but let’s say you never get there

when she wants only to see the heavens choke patience lost in all things

the blade has always been dull how it was made never

i entered into my junior high poet… with such a sense of excitement to share the craft that i had disc… just a couple years earlier a craft that my gramma had

walking down the path that leads t… from 15th street i pass the same pothole that was t… twenty-two years ago as black and as deep as it was

when at war for so long peace becomes an awkward conflict so you keep fighting

it was never my intention to clip… i was only trying to take a feathe… so that i would have something to… after you flew away

(a) his job (b) his home (c) his girl (d) his mind (e) his life