“For me elegy is a Ouija planchette something I pretend not to touch as I push it around trying to make it say what I want it to say” WritingDeathPoetryLossGriefDyingPoemWordsMourningElegy Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“How many thousands of stories like yours have been told and forgotten how many stories of lovingly durable nurses of hospital sheets of IV tubes dripping saline and morphine How many stories of drugs that would haul you along in their wake for a while but finally let you sink” DeathPoetryDyingPoemAidsHealthcareDrugsHivPrescription DrugsNurses Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does” DeathPoetryLossGriefPoemMourningMetaphors Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“Since you died the house style could best be described as leaves that cling to trees too long into winter” DeathPoetryLossGriefPoemWinterMourning Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you” PastDeathPoetryLossGriefPoemMourningPresent Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“As kids we were warned against playing with gender as if it were a plastic bag THIS IS NOT A TOY but here are some pictures of you in drag getting ready to head out to a party or maybe that was the party” PoetryPoemDragLgbtqGender RolesParties Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“I was clever in a severely limited sense” PoetryPoemClevernessLimitations Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon
“I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action.” PoetryPoemActivismConfusionFutilityCall To Action Book:13th Balloon Source: 13th Balloon