Why hello you stunning reader you. This Saturday, the amazing Axum Coffee is hosting a signing for Chasing Xaris from 10 to 11 am. So that's pretty great. If you're in the area, I would love to see you and talk Chandler! It's also a poem kind of day. But first, some beauty...

And now a poem:

I sit here, hopeful

Wanting to hold

Words from another land

But so often my arms are heavy logs

They are full

Brimming with worries and fears

Will we make it?

What if I hurt her?

What if they leave?

What if I’m discovered?

Yet you know me

You’ve plumed my depths

And still you come

Still you hold me

And whisper away my fears

So steady

Strong

You hear my questions

Every one

You hear my cries

Every cry

I spill them into your arms

Until my hands aren’t grasping

And you come close, so close

And you give, you give

You

To me