All works by Taylor Sacco

        When I write, I typically find myself focusing on brief descriptions of people or places that I have had intimate relationships with. Sometimes they are character descriptions, sometimes they are concise events, but either way I tend to focus exclusively on one period of my life, and the people and places that are connected to that period.
        These nine poems were either written in reference to, or during the year that I lived with my two roommates, Paul and Brian, and Brian’s dog Yoki, at 515 South Willard Street. It was a particularly interesting time in my life, during which I was working in a restaurant kitchen, studying English, dating a girl that was living for a year in England, and engaging in an affair with a wild and hard partying co-worker. During this year I turned 21 and subsequently spent my first night in a bathtub, smoked numerous cigarettes on the roof with Paul while watching Lake Champlain, had my heart broken, broke someone’s heart and took home my first cat Dinah. As a result, this address will always hold a special significance to me, as I grew more during that year than any one after it.
        This is a series of poems all of which can function independently but, I believe, will strengthen each other when read collectively. They span from the spring we moved in, to the summer in which our friendship crumbled and we went our separate ways. I hope that these brief portraits of people and the short instances of life in the apartment will resonate with anyone who has ever had a particularly rich or enlightening year at one address that will always seem fresh and present in their memories.