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book dedications are so tender here is this piece of art i made for an audience of thousands. but really every word is for you

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beginning of my poetry collection

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confessionals

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religious devotion

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love & religious devotion

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if the moon met you she’d kiss you on the mouth

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“Anything you love too violently always ends up killing you.”

— Guy de Maupassant, from “Night: A Nightmare” (1887)

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17:28

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5 poems about gay teenage sexual experimentation

marie howe, “practicing,” 1998

ocean vuong, “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” (excerpt), from night sky with exit wounds, 2014

angie sijun lou, “jessica gives me a chill pill” (excerpt), 2018

danez smith, “seroconversion,” from don’t call us dead, 2017

richard siken, “you are jeff” (excerpt), from crush, 2005

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august

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pages from my journal

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long gone love

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thinking about nothing at all. thinking very specifically about how important the comma is in frank o’hara’s ‘i look, at you and i would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world’. the inherent tenderness of looking out to an entire world filled with beautiful art and nature and your lover always being the first thing you notice?? making his reader consider the separated fragments of sentence to make them aware that he can’t view anything he has previously loved without it being put in parallel to his lover??? crying

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Diogo Gomes and Alberto Perazzolo by Giampaolo Sgura for Man About Town Magazine , November 2020