F Cade Swanson

Joined October 2021

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Queer dad from Virginia now living and writing in the Pacific Northwest. Dad poems, sad poems, stories about life. Follow me on insta at @fcadeswanson

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Blue Flames
blue flames leave nothing complete combustion they say a hole in my heart.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
A cloudless blue sky
My mind is azure unproductive thought ocean a cloudless blue sky.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Azure
I shall say azure When you ask me how I feel. Like sadness with flair.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
We had tables waiting
The first time I watched a man die of AIDS Was when I worked in Colonial Williamsburg. Tourists joked that my earrings weren’t period appropriate
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Stop talking
Your words take up space, create mountains of nothing. Meaningless gibber.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Broken Promises
"Forever," he said. "Like a mountain, eternal." And then walked away.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Surely it Does
I don't know the sun shines light beyond the mountain, but surely it does.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
How Far You've Come
Don't look down they say But sometimes only looking Shows how far you've come.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
But I'm Pretty Tough.
Yea maybe it's tall And climbing looks difficult But I'm pretty tough.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Reaching the Summit
Reaching the summit Seems impossible at times. Take it step by step.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Opening Pickle Jars
Pig tailed and sitting tall in a white t-shirt trimmed in lace, you balance on the white pleather seat of a pink bike in the Tacoma Walmart.
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets
Don't Come Out for Me
Don't come out for me. Come out for you. . No need for fanfare or announcements. No pressure to say it in the right tone
By F Cade Swanson3 years ago in Poets