SLOAN HAMPTON

Essays and Poems

  • Cucurrucucú paloma

    Cucurrucucú paloma

    If you are not here, who will claim the love I reserved for you? Who will wipe the tears that flow for you? Who will hear the heart that beats for you? With you gone, who will remember with me? Who will remind me I’m not alone? Read more

  • The Fire!! This Time (Foreword)

    The Fire!! This Time (Foreword)

    “Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison Read more

  • the sun’s sacrifices for the moon

    the sun’s sacrifices for the moon

    you are my tomorrow . . . wherever you go, I’ll follow Read more

  • solutions

    solutions

    Made decisions poorer than me. I’ve been drinking with friends I’m too eager to please. Read more

  • alone (2021)

    alone (2021)

    alone is who I am . . . when you withhold your feelings from me and use the distance for hiding. Read more

  • The Confessions of an Imposter

    The Confessions of an Imposter

    But truth is, I am an impostor—the misplaced child walking into rooms meant to destroy him, playing by rules designed to exclude him… Read more