Diary of a Deer

Poetry, fiction, and essays about faith, love, and grace — as well as literature, travel, films, the outdoors, music, and anything else that draws us further up and further in.

Welcome to the place where my bones speak first. This is my Substack, where I’ll be laying poems down like open wounds and strange prayers—some polished, some still bleeding. Purchase my poetry books through the link in bio.

"Wild Honeysuckle" is a place for poetry, thoughts, and chaotic emotions

Keeping the voice, words, and page alive—all at once.

Poems and stories that bend time, twist logic, and haunt softly. Cass Delmare writes for paradox-lovers and myth-breakers—blending surrealism, raw emotion, and lyrical precision into fiercely intimate, mind-bending experiments.

Drummer, writer and photographer, curating an offering of soul as The Emergent Spiral.

Retired English professor. Writer. Lover of mountains, animals, stone houses, and gardens. Appalled since he came down the escalator in 2015.

I've the privilege of writing and being entrusted with writers' manuscripts as an editor of small indie press . 'In This Slow Undoing' is home to literary loves and shared insights and experiences to bridge the gap between writing and publishing.

Interesting or amusing thoughts, aphorisms, insights. Microstories, poetics, art. No politics. Occasionally some venting/sleepytalk.

Language, poems, and photographs from everyday life.

"The crisis of beauty today consists precisely in the fact that beauty is reduced to its givenness, to its use or consumer value."

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Philosophy isn’t locked away in old libraries—it’s alive in our questions, our choices, and our conversations. If you’ve ever paused to ponder what’s real, what’s right, or why it all matters, Philosophy Shop is your place to think deeply, live wisely.

Poems, essays, walks and (over?)thoughts...

Small Pressings opens the door to the life of a small press and literary journal.