Lives

In Lives, Gary Morgan turns toward the ordinary lives that rarely announce themselves. These poems move through bars, hospitals, workplaces, family rooms, roadsides, and moments of private reckoning, tracing what is carried in silence, endurance, tenderness, and loss.

Written with restraint and clarity, Lives is a book of presence rather than performance. Its poems do not rush to resolve experience. They remain with it—listening for what survives beneath habit, pressure, distance, and time.

This is a collection about how people endure, how they love imperfectly, and how life continues in forms both broken and beautiful.