About the work

A closer look.

One poem for one person you are carrying. You send two or three true details about them: a name if you have one, a habit, the thing you cannot stop remembering. I write the elegy, then read it aloud in my own voice. Low, near-whisper, no softening. What you get: the poem as text, and an audio file of me reading it. Five days. Two rounds of revision. What I need from you: the details, and what you want the poem to do. Hold them. Say goodbye. Say the thing you never said. What I will not do: turn them into a greeting card. If the details are thin I will ask before I write. If I cannot do it honestly I will tell you, and you keep your money. Everything you send me and everything I make for you stays private. It is never posted and is not kept after delivery.