TO TUESDAY NIGHTS

PUBLISHED POETRY INCLUDED IN MY FORTHCOMING COLLECTION: LETTERS TO NOWHERE

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my name is tangled in

your whisky-stained breath—

delicious and painted amber.

a taste i love because it’s you

—all the yous i’ve met,

caustic in your stale, shaking

honesty. i replay you

over and over like a needle

stuck in vinyl, worn in

as the quilt on your bed—

every movement of your mouth,

every brush of your fingertips

—until you mean exactly

what i want.

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originally published in The Closed Eye Open, November 2021