Poetry on Wiley’s Walk explores the complexities of relationships, the experience of loss, and questions of identity and belonging. Some poems confront exclusion or assert a voice; others stay with desire, uncertainty, and feelings that resist being put into words.
Gales Unseen
Wind and rain frame a poem about two people standing close together while experiencing different storms.
The Water Still Decides
The moon and tide become a way to consider closeness, distance, and what a return can leave unresolved.
Blue Without Boundary
A darkened screen and the color blue give form to absence, stillness, and the space left after an ending.
Poets Walk
Light, clouds, lavender, and water mark a walk through a landscape that changes as it is observed.
Unfinished Hours
Dusk, rush hour, a midnight kitchen, and an unsent message trace what remains as the hours move forward.
More poems from the archive
The poetry archive explores love, loss, grief, desire, memory, and the passage of time. Poems also examine identity, disability, belonging, advocacy, and the tensions between people: what is said, what is withheld, and what remains unresolved. Browse by publication year.
2026
- Somewhere Between Summer and Fall
- Between Here and Nowhere
- A Different Language
- Beautiful Delay
- Misaligned
- Still — not empty.
- Before the Turn
- Nothing Ahead
- Beginnings
- Open Line
- Half Like Home
- Twenty-Six
- Brick without Cover
2025
- The Light They Left
- Still—We Knock
- Outside the Count
- The Door May Narrow
- Where the Sound Doesn’t Settle
- A Single Shot Should Never Speak
- Where Love Once Lived
- The Line That Will Not Mend: When Silence Becomes the Hardest Word
- Memory’s Quiet Skin
- Salt’s Shadow
- Burn Lines
- Where the Light Fell
- Silent Drafts
- Knots That Won’t Hold
- Ash Before Flame: What Rises in the Stillness
- The Echo of Almost
- Skimming Light
- Threaded Fire
- What Stays After The Storm
- Even Kindness Misses
- The House Didn’t Notice
- The Way Things Settle
- Everything After Red
- Threaded Through Bone
- What the Fire Held
- Between Ash and Breath
- When Blue Paused for Purple
- Where Absence Lingers
- The Season of Almost
- What The Night Holds
- The Weight of Proof
- The Space Between Motion and Stillness
- The Unseen Thaw
- The Pause Before Dawn
- What Silence Holds
- The Roads We Carry
- Shifting the Stone
- Blue Like That: A Shade of What Lingers
- Fragments of the Unspoken: A Reflection on Rediscovery
- Lessons from Driftwood
2024
- Ember and Thunder: A Conversation About Change
- Dark Slips In: When Grief Whispers
- When the Ice Bends: On Fragility and Strength
- Moonlight And Shadows
- Exploring “Echoes in the Shatter”
- Shapes of Courage
- When Silence Lingers: Finding Strength in Stillness
- Waiting in the In-Betweens: A Journey Through Disability
- Desert of Longing: The Unfading Shadow
- Beyond Limits: Nurturing Dreams
- Ashes to Stone: A Journey of Resilience and Reflection
- Between the Sand and the Sky: A Journey from Isolation to Inclusion
- “Whispers of Blue and Black”
2019
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