Writing until the light goes out

Writing until the light goes out

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Writing until the light goes out
Writing until the light goes out
New poems from w-i-p collection, "Less" #2
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New poems from w-i-p collection, "Less" #2

Two new poems from a potential new collection...

May 18, 2024
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Writing until the light goes out
Writing until the light goes out
New poems from w-i-p collection, "Less" #2
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They’ve taken down the signs for lunch


‘Remember that Lobster Bisque in Bruges?
My steak that melted on the tongue?’
- and the handwritten receipt we kept, now lost,
as if that could ever be enough.

Ghosts on a naked blackboard.
Traces of Chef’s specials once chalked in a florid script,
the enigma of ingredients
a code no longer on the menu to be bro…

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