You season, your reason
feeding my juvenilia. Acknowledge—
me—not, an off daisy
petal blank in your sampling,
my full-length void of yours.
I ignore your email. I wish we talked.
I am just now reading Sexton, your
epigraph. I mean really reading
her. My god, the color! The green
scum off freshwater shores. I am back
home bringing in the groceries,
letting all the swell blend, beige
weddings. Dried Fall flowers.
Goodbyes have always been
more important. To me, at least.
Patrick Paridee Samuel is the author of And Another Thing (Broken Sleep Books, 2025) and the chapbook A Suite of Heads (Ghost City Review, 2024). He received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Recent poems appear in Allium, Beaver Magazine, Boudin, Frozen Sea, Waxing and Waning, and Whiskey Tit. Originally from Michigan, Patrick currently lives in Nashville where he works in university press publishing. His favorite revenge movie is Kill Bill Vol. 1.
