Kayleb Rae Candrilli is author of Water I Won't Touch (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), All the Gay Saints (Saturnalia Books, 2020) and What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017).
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My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow
but all I want to do is marry them on a beach
that refuses to take itself too seriously.
So much of our lives has been serious.
Over time, I’ve learned that love is most astonishing
when it persists after learning where we come...