Poem 1 - DEPARTURE

Empty, Coathangers
clash, echo in the closet
He will never return

I walk in spring
lightness of barefeet
after a winter
of boots

Poem 2 - URBAN RIOT

Gathering at busStops
Challenging synthetics resistance
with steady persistance
An army of drops
changes the streets
into islands and oceans

Soggy shoes grace unhurried feet
Ushered into motion
As rain takes reign
(Thank god i remembered to forget my umbrella)

Poem 3 - HASTINGS STREET

Sadness stands on the street corner,
asking for money.
It's cold
and he has only
one arm.
Our coins are not the sun,
our coins are not kisses.
This is the way
the world
fails itself.

Poem 4 - MAP OF THE HEART

What are you thinking
when you buy a painting?
What are you thinking
when you buy a gun?

The night is full of ambulances and dreamers.

I think the meaning of life
is to shed our armour:
that's why I navigate my heart
to paper,
that's why
we risk
diaries, beds and kisses.

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