Navigating relationships can be difficult. Marriage relationships. Parent-child relationships. Relationships between siblings or friends. They can break, again for all kinds of reasons. And it’s the aftermath of these breaks, and people traveling through modern life, that poet Tobi Alfier explores in Goodbye Kisses: Poems.
In Alfier’s poems, the people involved wander afterward in a desolate landscape. It doesn’t matter who might have been right and who was wrong. Enough desolation exists for everyone. Some try to move on quickly. Others linger, immobilized. They walk beaches. They visit bars. They trace their hands over old carved initials in a tree. Some sit in old motel rooms, alcohol in a paper cup. Some sit at kitchen tables and stare.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
What rhyme does – Padraig O Tuama at Poetry Unbound.
Letters to a poet on the moon – Amelia Friedline at Innocence Abroad.
Morning Tea French Poem + A 100-Year-Old Tea House – L.L. Barkat at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Think Small – poem by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer at Every Day Poems.
The Meaning for This Hebrew Word Is Uncertain – poem by Anna Friedrich at Rabbit Room Poetry.
“All the Flowers,” poem by John Webster – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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