"Begging Begins" is the croup cough recollections of a poetic voice that late-at-night and not-so-alone exhausts itself trying to preserve the afterthoughts and aftertastes that come with the constant shape shifting necessary to stay afloat above the red waters of wanting and being wanted back.

This little gray book is filled with landscapes where contemporary mandates to negotiate desire collapses through overflows of longing and lack and wanting as the only purpose of an extended tongue that knows of droughts.

"These poems need a content warning: live grenades lobbed with insolent assurance to explode in your heart." —Penny Goring