The End The end, some say, is the end

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Playing Waterwheel Court, where I grew up

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Chicago You led me up the path along the shore against the wind

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Smoke Signals Don't worry, the bear that rushed me in the water, slavering, teeth bared, ready to tear out my heart, was me

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Smoke Signals," is here:

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Mouthfeel Is there anything more intimate

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Was it to no one I heard you say I’m tired in the hot spray of the shower, where even the most carefully-packed-away feelings slip the tongue

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," is here:

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Happiness Forgets At Happiness Forgets, handsome barmen hawkeyed us, waiting for our second round of drinks to do the trick

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good sport soccer we won't talk about

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The Last Supper You’d think a broken heart would be unbreakable

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "The Last Supper," is here:

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The Rest of the Poem You’re not angel or devil

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Walking It Out I thought to ask if you fancied a country walk to air the attic room of us, but also to see if something about the insistence of springtime gave impetus to mending the fallen fences between us – or fi...

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Floodlines How like the bowl of pretty soaps in the bathroom no one's meant to use we became

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Floodlines," is here:

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Sustainable Tears I buy enough Kleenex at a shop called Kindly in your old jumper and £8 blue jeans to keep woodcutters in luxury, but beware the speaker of this poem who rhymes & alliterates to elide

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Sustainable Tears," is here:

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Disappeared As kids we got good at playing dead, believing statue stillness made us invisible, melding the aims of freeze tag and hide-and-seek

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Disappeared," is here:

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Write a Poem Already Everything takes longer when your heart is broken

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Write a Poem Already," is here:

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Floataway Café Zonolite Road

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Starved On my way to work, I passed a tree whose low-hanging branch of leaves had been shut in the door of a car

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Starved," is here:

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Fringing I felt it before I saw it

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One Sad Ending is Enough The day we met I’d come into town to shop and see

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "One Sad Ending is Enough," is here:

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Cat Dream I hear you purr

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Learning to Fail Better I was taught to measure twice

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Learning to Fail Better," is here:

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Indian Christmas Tree Mom in her candy cane fog

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Cloudbreak You shall play the part of gay divorcé

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Cloudbreak," is here:

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Calling You I called you my partner

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aftertaste I come to New York to exorcise ghosts

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Split Infinitives I had some kind of block when it came to understanding split infinitives, and remained unsure of what they were – until the morning I asked you to sit down and hold my hand to finally talk about parti...

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NOWHERE

Always seeking
never finding.

Always nowhere
never arriving ...

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Acadian Wedding Could it be the one with whom I walked hand-in-hand to City Hall and vowed to love in all weathers, despite the storm that would flood us out, felt what I felt

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "Acadian Wedding," is here:

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Handle with Care “What have you done with your anger?”

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2 Bright Rooms Marriage boiled down to shelter – a home

Today's Sad Gay Divorce Poem, "2 Bright Rooms," is here:

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