A contemporary poem about what the distance carries, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Distance carries more than absence. It carries the spoon you left in the drawer, the exact tilt of your last goodbye, the warmth retained by a borrowed coat. I have tried to empty it. Nothing falls out. The far place is crowded with ordinary things.
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A crossing-at-night poem about moving when the signal changes and choosing action over waiting.
A platform-side poem about a last train, a softened ticket and the light of other lives moving beyond reach.
A late-night road poem about taking the wrong exit, leaving an old stopping place behind and continuing without a map.
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