F Cade Swanson

Joined October 2021

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Bio

Queer dad from Virginia now living and writing in the Pacific Northwest. Dad poems, sad poems, stories about life. Read more at fcadeswanson.com

Achievements (1)

Second Place in Get Comfortable Challenge

Stories (29/0)

Top Story - December 2023
FullnessTop Story - December 2023
For years after I came out my mother would ask me if I was sick. "You're too skinny," she would say. It was an accusation more than an observation.
By F Cade Swanson9 days ago in Poets
Ode to a Car Key
Oh, magical switchblade key to my 2014 Chevy, you ignite more than my engine as I grasp and turn your smooth black fob in my fingers.
By F Cade Swanson4 months ago in Poets
Love song
What does it mean to be all the man that I need? Is it a guy who can “fill me up and give me love… more love than I've ever seen?”
By F Cade Swanson5 months ago in Poets
Not too bad
“I want a soda,” I say. "Diet." You grin. A soda? I like the way you know what I mean. Like yes be bad But then not too bad.
By F Cade Swanson5 months ago in Poets
Wanting You to be Okay
Dad, while I was sleeping, I heard you quietly Say that you worry about me, and That you want me to be okay. Rather than try
By F Cade Swanson6 months ago in Poets
Lost in Your Current
You're angry again spit fire, ablaze, inferno. I cover my ears. Your harsh words, they grit clog my arteries with sand
By F Cade Swanson10 months ago in Poets
Top Story - January 2023
Dreams of regenerationTop Story - January 2023
The pale blue light of the full moon makes the tears gathering in the corners of my eyes more obvious as I stare at pictures of us on my phone
By F Cade Swanson11 months ago in Poets
We blazed like blue flames
We blazed like blue flames, were entirely consumed. Hearts burned completely.
By F Cade Swanson12 months ago in Poets
Blue Flames
blue flames leave nothing complete combustion they say a hole in my heart.
By F Cade Swanson12 months ago in Poets
A cloudless blue sky
My mind is azure unproductive thought ocean a cloudless blue sky.
By F Cade Swanson12 months ago in Poets
Azure
I shall say azure When you ask me how I feel. Like sadness with flair.
By F Cade Swanson12 months ago in Poets
We had tables waiting
The first time I watched a man die of AIDS Was when I worked in Colonial Williamsburg. Tourists joked that my earrings weren’t period appropriate
By F Cade Swansonabout a year ago in Poets

F Cade Swanson

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Ode to a Car Key

Love song

Not too bad

Wanting You to be Okay

Lost in Your Current

Dreams of regenerationTop Story - January 2023

We blazed like blue flames

Blue Flames

A cloudless blue sky

Azure

We had tables waiting

Achievements (1)

FullnessTop Story - December 2023