kiss & release

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A meditation in a rush </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>kiss & release</em> </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is driven by the intense voice of an observant insistent & emotional I. He's an urban gay man who </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>admits he's here with a date but you never know how the night will end</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. He has several loves at least a few fuckboys and many questions:</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>most spells are made with words & broken by a kiss why not the other way around?</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>what is more intimate than a whisper?</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>how long will yr wife be gone?</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Have you ever noticed it? </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>asks Love Is Finished Again a poem cycle revealed in seven movements. The sequence muses on how we end up in the same place over & over in sex & love & everything. The only real change is through decay that makes</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> ruins noseless busts caves of Pompeii brothel rooms</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Even language & communication decay as a number of mashup and collaborative poems explore.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Are you ready for the beats?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> This book is a party and a romance. It's a lucid dream.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This poetry accuses brags confesses obsesses panics & promises. It discos raves & swings. It falls in love during a hookup but gets bored at a four-way. It woos the Zodiac; tries to get its virginity back; invents sex as a religion mythologizes masculinity & succumbs to its devils; kills a snake to resurrect a lover; gives a blowjob at a dirty book store; goes to see bad performance art; looks for love & finds it everywhere/wherever.</span></p><p><br></p>