from the author: 'Night Emptying' is my first collection of poetry. Excerpts: "Night Emptying" A graveyard of stomachs and late night vapor, my body and your murmurs It's so late and you are alone with my envy, stray hairs and memories of dead dogs. I want to scratch your back and whatever itches, to disrupt your talk and pattern of words, but your friends dissuade all of my fumbles. Tight and full of shadows, I walk backwards and quote your name, but you only speak of smoke, never of my mouth or field of veins. "White, So Much White" A sheet over your naked body in the middle of a mattress White, so much white babbling from the creek of your chest I want to galvanize your limbs, I want you to keep sleeping, I want you sewn into my stabbed side When we leave this room we will be no one, we will be fields.