Sometimes I Fall Down

I’m going to keep writing these until I get one right. Dear Mom: I got a scholarship and a stipend. Me - at twenty-five, a two-time dropout...

My mother and I haven’t had a relationship for seven years now, and it’s debatable whether what we had before that could be called a relatio...

Found this post-it note on the sidewalk in front of the convention center while walking my dog. I read it, re-read it, and it stuck with me...

the thing about my heart is its tenacity i was born with a stainless steel heart. its transitive elasticity its refusal to break apart its c...

my heart has never fit well in a box, and so i can't believe that you would try to put it within walls and behind locks, to chain it dow...

listen: there's the lock. someone new is turning now that old key, once yours.

if you're really going to leave me, give back that night that we spent on top of the old ho...

Taken from "In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop" by Steve Kowit. Steve, you're a gentleman. A translit...

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I'd like to go ahead and let the whole world know that I know I'm not writing good poetry right now. But I'm writing, you see, ...