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And what did it mean to be kids together? Together in those years of uncertainty, searching for those who made us feel less alone. Venerations and Goodbyes is my love letter to that liminal time in adolescence where you do not belong anywhere except the space and time you are inhabiting. The time while you wait for your life to start, often, not realizing that it already has.
These poems pause on the small moments. They celebrate the places you were able to first be free and commemorate the friends who were there alongside you. They explore what it meant to be kids together, at a certain time, in a certain place. They lament how much we carry with us and how much we eventually leave behind. We grow and change from those awkward kids. Though we don’t realize it, as days come after days and the same songs play on our playlists. We hold on to just enough, so we don’t feel it slipping away. These poems honor and mourn those moments that add up to a life. 
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This one is for those songs you listen to with your eyes closed, Umbrella Factory
This one is for Giant’s Despair, Umbrella Factory
This one is for the losers, Umbrella Factory
This one is for us, Gargoyle
This one is for being straight edge, Gargoyle
This one is for highways, Gargoyle
This one is for Point Park, Uppagus
This one is for that summer, Uppagus
This one is for who we were so sure we would become, Shooter
This one is for the AIM away message, Nude Bruce
This one is for The World Inferno/Friendship Society, Rat Bag
Life is just a series of good byes, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for the cynics, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for all the scene kings and queens, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for everything having a soundtrack, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for those songs you hate, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for those burrito (k)nights, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for the labels, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for our glory days, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for the boys of my youth, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for those songs, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for the weird girl, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for the empty streets, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for day drinking, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This is for Denny's in Los Angeles, Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
Life is just a series of good byes (reprise), Earth Island Books, 10 Poets Vol 3
This one is for that first car, Loyalhanna Review (forthcoming)
This one is for being one of the lucky ones, Chiron Review (forthcoming)
This one is for those last nights, Chiron Review (forthcoming)
This one is for those small town kids we were once, Chiron Review (forthcoming)