2017 / 83 pages / 5x8 inches

The fifth poetry paperback by Steve Skafte, scattered talkings-to-yourself and thoughts on being distant in the company of friends. We're all smiles together, all silence alone. It's so easy to lose your grip on human contact, an aching that's hard to fill without losing your voice. These are poems of honest quiet, shared with someone until the feeling finally makes sense...

Chapter 1: Gregarious

Operibus Anteire
Proving Something Every Day
The Forlorn Hope
Your Left Ear
Two Boats Crashing in the Night
Blind in Plain Sight
Black Lung
Pages of Blank Stares
Unrest in the Middle West
Lay Down Your Death
Bright Ones and Zeros
Limbo Angel
Red Eye
Mushroom Soup for the Soul
A Fisher of Men
A Change of Heart
Silver Creek
Procreating
Salty Dreams
Where the Asphalt Ends
Sinking Sailors
Land of the Lonely Skies
You Can Never Whisper Too Loud
The Dreamer Wakes Up
Under the Sign of Sorrow
Lightly, Brightly, Boldly
Kids These Days
Meteoric Rise
Tightrope for Two
All Things New

Chapter 2: Introvert

Desperate Passage
Perfect Skin
They All Drowned
I Thought We Had an Understanding
The Crocodile Tears of Middle-Class Hypocrites
Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
Fish Self
Euphoric Recall
Me of Little Faith
The Woods Between the Worlds
The Great Depression
Wayward Thoughts
For Young Eyes Only
This Time, My Life
The Fearful Faithful
Playing Alive
The Burning Days
The Cloudy Cinema
Air Traffic
The End of Austerity
Dereliction Is Better than Fiction
The Wall
How It Feels to Be Created
The Walls Are Thin
Hollow Mountain
Footwork
The Vanishing Point
Raindance in the Shower
Hibernation
Go Lightly