Your love is like a wave sent from God,

crashing over me,

taking my breath away,

pulling me under

where the flames of my heart

can be quenched

in deep waters

that I’ve never

quite learned how to swim.

© Scott Thomas Outlar

Excerpt from the book

“Happy Hour Hallelujah”

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About the Author

Scott Thomas Outlar resides in the suburbs outside of Atlanta, Georgia where he spends the hours flowing and fluxing with the ever-changing currents of the Tao River while laughing at and/or weeping over life’s existential nature. He hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews can be found. His poem “Poetic Points” was nominated for Best of the Net by The Mind[less] Muse in 2015. Since beginning to submit his work in 2014, he has had more than 800 poems appear in over 200 print and/or online venues, both in the…