Thursday, August 10, 2023

GAS Featured Poet: Peter Cashorali

 


"Peter is a queer psychotherapist, previously working in community mental health and HIV/AIDS, now in private practice in Portland and Los Angeles. He is the author of two books, Gay Fairy Tales (HarperSanFranciso 1995) and Gay Folk and Fairy Tales (Faber and Faber, 1997). He has lived through addiction, multiple bereavements and the transitions from youth to midlife and midlife to old age and believes you can too."


Sam

 

Where is this

You find yourself?

In our thoughts,

Wandering

Through long agos,

Rooms of sunlight

Decades dim

Or shocking-sharp

Because last week

But clearly not

What you expected,

Which was heaven

Made of fame,

Or nothing

And its deep embrace.

None of this

Was up to you.

You find yourself

In memory

Though not your own,

A guest, a caller

In the homes

Of who you knew,

Not knowing now

But being known.



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