Elation and relief Rushing through me Relieve me of relations past The last drops of your saliva are cleansed from my blood The scabs of...

There’s too much going on On every screen around How can we dare to focus? How can we break away? There’s a war for our attention A war...

A Liturgy of Stones is a book of poems by David Wright, published in 2003. Laced with melancholy, these stanzas are a glance into the...

Friends and foes Exchanging blows Beneath the dappling leaves Surrogate sunlight shines ‘Neath false bannered pines The raider’s fleet,...

I stagger, buffeted by winds and ice shards With joints of glass And tattered robes of shattered office For in this storm, I stand alone...

Can our footprints ever be erased? Or our handprints replaced? What about our fingers, those identifiers Point out our whereabouts, call...

That I could write like any other man Words to brighten a day But I don’t seem to be able to understand What makes you weep and smile. If...

Hollow like a pitted fruit, nothing but scars remain Where once my flesh connected with fibers much like thread I walk through life with...