No One is Looking For You

Abstract

The poems in this manuscript explore the emotional landscape of an emotionally repressed speaker to explore opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually nighttime for this speaker, and the poems often take place in surrealist, haunting impressions of ordinary settings, mostly in the domestic sphere. This collection features recurring images such as birds, cats, roadkill, long nighttime walks, and light switches which are always being turned off. All of these elements serve to imbue the poems with the sense of ghostliness and invisibility felt by the speaker