Tues Dec 10, 2024

Tues Dec 10, 2024

Haven’t slept. Not that important. Finished a manuscript. Resolved to enter contests until we’re up and running. I feel good about what I’m sending out. Hope people get it. Don’t see how you couldn’t haha. Took an old manuscript and chopped it from 50ish to 20 pages. I like the chapbook as a container. It’s like writing an album; nice and succinct. Listening to GNX by Kendrick Lamar and thinking about Luigi Mangione. Revolution? Why not? Lemme just put these poems out bruh. Here’s a new on

Uaina

I still look after you, although it has been years since we touched bases.

When I shower off the recycled jet air from my body,

I remember you always said something like it. Tucked into your smile

The scent of you stepping from the bath, your steam, your breath.

The way our hands clasped and closed us; a circle always coming back

From your lies and your other lives. Then I remember the places you hid me from

When all I wanted was to swim under the belly of our moon to our song:

A soured melody I wanted to love

And you would not have me.