Nostalgia used to claw under
my skin like dull razors...

As the stars unpacked
themselves across the sky...

I wish to learn to love you in
every alphabet...

My cramped fingers cavort
(in the crooked nooks...

She shrugged her
shoulders as if...

Somewhere amidst an
acrimonious tempest...

My feet are mirrors of
the eggshells I've...

I've spent half a lifetime
attempting to rid...

I danced with the devil
not knowing it was...

Acceptance is a blind
mistress I've never...

There are ancient pains
that have...

Familiarity is the taste of nostalgia
and betrayal...