Even If I’M Not Here

By Gabby Baba

Even If Im Not Here, author Gabby Babas second published collection of poetry, presents verses that explore human life in all its aspects, considering our complexity when we are at our most unprotected.

Through vibrant description and stark imagery, she strips the body of language to its flesh, exposing humanitys most untouchable experiences. With vehemence, Baba dives deeply into close observation and imagination of life, unafraid of either vulnerability or villainy. Her poems allow us to lose ourselves in human emotion and become part of something larger than the words themselves. They seek peace in times of solitude and embrace a flawed world filled with tragedy and dysfunction, revealing a young and restless soul wandering the world.

Compelling and heartfelt, this collection of poetry takes a vivid and imaginative approach to the examination of human experience and sexuality.

Remember These Words

People arent mysterious.

Im not mysterious.

Youre not mysterious.

Stop trying to be interesting.

Be interested.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781480827493

Gabby Baba

Gabby Baba is a graduate of the University of Houston and is the author of The Sullen Mist. She has competed in several poetry contests around the nation, and her poems Enchanted Forest and He is Only Made of Bones were featured in the Eber and Wein publications This Time Around: Anchors Aweigh and Best Poets of 2015. She lives in Houston. www.GABBYBABAAUTHOR.com

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-2748-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-2747-9 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-2749-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016902375

Archway Publishing rev. date: 3/11/2016

Contents

He is Only Made of Bones

A Genius

Crow

Away from Living

A Dirty Pretty Secret

Vigilant Swordfish

Hum

A Cab Ride Home

Devil Chaos

Everything is Purple

Water Moon

A Wedding Vow

A Girl’s Life

Your Blossom Awaits

Roam

Gorgeous

The Forest Fire between Us

Red

Moth

The Funeral

Nature’s Love Affair

Machines

I Hold

Adult Playgrounds

The Rusted Side of Realm

What Have We Become?

Wolf Eyes

Marsupium

Jump

A Beautiful Man

Talk to Me

Broken

Red Velvet Underworld

Boomerang

Bloodline Split

Dress in Mysterious Ways

Blackbird Life

Another Form of Rape

Jungle Madness

Beat

A Soft Rock

The Smokey Incubus Man

Balmy

Dreamland

The Harvesting Cliff

A Vacant Discovery

Dysfunction

The Rain Keeps Us Safe

Art Wreck

Writer’s Block

What I See

Drunk Girl

Transparent Lovers

Melody Touches Misery

Bury Me

Bosnian Bombshell

Young Kisses Go Far

The Poison Girl Who Sat Behind Me

The One

A Harp in Mud

Silent Seed

Drive Away with My Remains in a Plastic Bag

A Dying Generation

Walking Bridges Made of Bones

Mute

Goodbye

I Wrote You

Stay Alive

Remember These Words

The Freedom Kite Waves

Don’t Tell

You Only Live Once

Grove Game is Near

Two Black Beds

The Ocean is Mean

A Little Fish and a Pool Shark

Skittles and Women

Can’t Live Without

Stuck in the Middle

I Was Never a Night Owl

Rainy Days

Thank You Courtney

The Boy Who Constructs Legos with Air

Summer Nights of Objects in the Sky

Thinking Like Wind and Fruits

Moon Mother

Scorpio and Scorpio

Halo

Dedication to the Undeserved

The Rotting Tree Sings

Collecting Magic from Emeralds

My Friend Who Likes Miranda July

Help See Me

Oh Tough World

Infinite

Eloquent Tomb

Voices from Autumn

Black Spell Light

Apple Grenades

I Miss Having a Tub

Plexus and Snow

Talking Under Trees with Time Gods

Boxed Secrets

Even If I’m Not Here

For the ones who drive 88 miles per hour

with their eyes closed

For Young Love

We together,

robotic clones shuffling

pills and paperwork.

We together,

curled up pennies hiding

from the world,

never allowing anyone to see

our worth.

We together,

juvenile

forever.

-Words inspired by N. Del Toro

He is Only Made of Bones

He was nothing more than a

dark chasm,

a velvet rope leading me to a

bottomless pit.

There were days I mourned being the

flesh built around