Graham Foust is the author of three books of poems: As In Every Deafness (2003), Leave the Room to Itself (2003), and Necessary Stranger (2007).
very cold. My small
and panicked last
kiss was like making
a noise to make sure
I was there
Gone’s the imposter. And gone’s
his gawky cross. Gone’s
his tweaked legacy’s hit list–Hooray!–
and gone’s his waste of song.