12 Dec Purgatorio by Kevin Koch
Until your fingers left my skin.
I didn’t really know how you owned my heart
Until I couldn’t hear yours beating
I didn’t really know how your smile lit my life
Until I was lost in darkness.
I didn’t really know how your lips warmed mine
Until I was left in the cold.
I didn’t really know how I’d given you my soul to keep
Until you were gone.
About the Poet
Kevin Koch is the co-curator and co-host of the The Screening Room Poetry Series in at The Screening Room Cinema Café in Amherst, N.Y. (Ida Goeckel is co-curator and co-host.)
A Buffalo native and graduate of Canisius University where he majored in English and minored in Creative Writing and Classics, Koch is a now a fiction writer and educator. You can follow his work at kochfiction.com.
He grew up loving to read and being ridiculously uncool (which he freely admits to all his students—strangely they aren’t surprised). After going back to graduate school, he found his true passion: English Education. He loves teaching and learns more from his students than he could ever hope to give back.
Related Event
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- On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 7:30 p.m., The Screening Room Reading Series co-hosted by Kevin Koch and Ida Goeckel will present a special, holiday-themed open mic with no featured reader. The Screening Room Cinema Café is at 880 Alberta Drive (in the former Boulevard Mall) in Amherst. Admission to the event is $4.
The Poem of the Week feature is curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.