Very happy to have two experimental pieces in scissors & spackle, a sort of experimental/punk literary journal. “Love Song for a Friend” is a grief list poem and “gratitudes” is also lists that became something readworthy (hopefully). The friend in “Love Song” is Kim who left the world too soon. I also wrote about her in the piece, “Kim,” published in Cincinnati Review, which eventually made it to The Best Small Fictions 2020 anthology. I’m glad to have immortalized her a bit on this plane. The circumstances of her death were never made clear. It may have been suicide. No funeral. No ritual. But writing.
![motorcycle boots on pink with poem title for "love song for a friend"](https://koss-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/love-song-insta-purplish.jpg)
![gold and gray photo of peonies with an aunt and text for poem, "gratitudes"](https://koss-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/image-1.png)