A collection of poems entered for the Attys awards, 2012. The judges were kind enough to shortlist this work and I thank them for that recognition. Biggest thanks, however, go to you, dear reader.

What if they loved you just as much as you grew to love them? "You threw me in a fit, For you hated my letters and what they said, It began the unspirals of my bindings But loved you all the more I did. "