Jeremy Palmer

2025 Was a good year For the roses Though With December’s Relentless snow January Will find them Frozen There may not be Another garden Without Fertile ground To plant This heart in I have no interest In another harvest Honestly I see no harm in Enduring In this darkness Afterall I am an artist I know nothing Of farming There is no Starving Without Disregarding The pains of hunger To waste away like The grains of summer And remain awake With disdain for slumber To dream Would betray My...

When you were further away Only connected by This "No Return Address"  Letter  You said my hands Felt like home I remembered My palms on your face I read your thoughts like a poem Those tucked away In your sacred place Written in stone, penned by your soul Like brail, my blind fingers trace The line "Your embrace Is the first time I ever felt whole"  We both knew there was only one secret And neither of us wanted to keep it Though we tried Our eyes betrayed Words we had to hide Yet...

I remember the sadness of that tragic day When they took the rest of the magic away It wasn't anything I didn't know already Honestly I just wasn't ready Like I tried to halt The growing up, I already knew enough About becoming an adult Kurt Cobain was alive Until they said he was dead And Santa was real Until they took him from my head I plugged my ears Resisted that inevitable truth Turned my eyes away From measurable proof Angels no longer heard on high Only my lonely sighing Rudolph...