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Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will go right through me
An essay about rocks, attachment, and trusting that fear will show you the way
Jan 5
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10 years later, a reading from my collection Dawn of the Algorithm
An evening dedicated to print literature, music, and good friends
Dec 7, 2025
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Touching wood
A poem about doing the work
Nov 9, 2025
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NYC Poor Me
May 1, 2024
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What it Takes to Be the Non
Mar 9, 2023
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Confessional Blogger Bullshit
Aug 23, 2024
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CC#5: Florida Man Ignores Warning and is Struck and Killed by Train
Mar 5, 2023
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CC#10: Florida Man has Friend Mail Him Rattlesnake in a Coffee Can
Oct 8, 2023
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CC#17: The Armature Under the City
Feb 11, 2023
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Fragments spun from lily pads and pond scum
A trip to Giverny, a trick of the light, a couple of poems
Nov 2, 2025
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SOUVENIR Magazine launch
Featuring my translation of Lou Syrah's body horror short story 'Bouche D'ombre'
Oct 24, 2025
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Like a cell, a starling, a rogue planet
A trust-fall kind of poem about the birds and the bees and all that mysterious plumbing under our feet
Oct 5, 2025
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Fragments spun from kite strings and weeping willows
Poetic and prosaic meditations on the nature of existence, the arrhythmic and unpredictable dance of atoms coming together and falling apart
Aug 17, 2025
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That Black Magic You Do
Working through some feelings, spellcasting heavy lines of poetry like so many anchor chains clattering to the sea floor
Aug 10, 2025
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Gratitudes, randomized
Found poem I found while looking (in vain) for some sort of narrative consistency in my journals
Jul 26, 2025
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Fragments spun from swan plumage and impressionist skies
Topsy turvy snippets about this (psychedelics), that (slow apocalypses), and the other (French bread)
Jul 19, 2025
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Fragments spun from Myanmar teak and copper piping
A couple of poems sprinkled with a little dystopia, a little nostalgia, and a dash of hope
Jun 20, 2025
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What if my Poetry is Broken
A poem written during a strange and weightless period when I thought I would never write again.
Jun 5, 2025
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