The Long Invisible -- Michael Dechane, Paperback Fiction - Western and spice mixes

and spice mixes

stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink

I know I'm not gay

and forage for simple herbs and flowers

The Long Invisible -- Michael Dechane, Paperback Fiction - Western and spice mixesWaiting inside each of us are lives we can't imagine living or even wanting until upheaval or loss or what appears to be a profound mistake means we must become these people and live these lives, after all. Here are poems for those days when we wake up inside some raw, unchartable place. Some trembling songs to companion us in the dark, as we go. Reminders that help and hope may be waiting for us where we never would have looked. These poems invite us