Month: August 2026

  • Quinque Gradus

    Quinque Gradus

    The phases are quintessential aren’t they? Five of them. Like the elements. But the fifth element… The Quinta Essentia. What holds it all together when it wants to fall apart?

  • “Dream Out Loud”

    “Dream Out Loud”

    This summer has taught me that life is too short. Life has always been a struggle for me… forcing myself into day-to-day life in accordance with neurotypical standards is like jamming a square peg into a tiny round hole, and it has caught up to me.

  • Lotus Deepen Our Prayer

    Lotus Deepen Our Prayer

    “Mud packing into shale packing into sediment — earning its keep digging deep, deep, deep…”

  • A Dolphin Fathoms Deep

    A Dolphin Fathoms Deep

    A floor becomes a sea, a gallery becomes a dive point — an illustrated poem about escaping servitude and finding a pod to swim toward paradise with.

  • Buffalove

    Buffalove

    “Every trip home from Buffalo used to end in devastation — a nervous system that only knew one direction to grieve. This week, for the first time, the love traveled south instead.”

  • George Washington Was A Surveyor

    George Washington Was A Surveyor

    There’s not much science to back it up. I dowsed for a spot. Walked toward what felt right.

  • I want to catch it before I lose it

    I want to catch it before I lose it

    Air is violently bellowed through, blowing out impurities — carbon, silicon, detritus…. Some of the carbon is processed back in, and under intense and loving human ingenuity, an element is alloyed into a synthetic wonder — man-made, yet of nature. Everybody loves my mom, because she is the quiet foundation that holds us all together…

  • Run The Other Way…

    Run The Other Way…

    I physically get up. Look for a door. Go through. Can’t outrun it. Why even try? Freeze, fall, flail. Face.