Old Improvidence
Lee SummersPoetry and prose about identity, memory, community, and whatever else I feel like writing about.
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Paper Zombie
Paper Zombie
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My lips strain; open
my mouth or my eyes?
My first plaque scrapes
out of a dental pick.
The forest of my foll...
PWBAT
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
“PWBAT”
PWBAT in its original format by me [Lee Summers], 10/23/2026
(Ugly text version incoming below, because this site lets you bet on shit but won’t let you put a table in easily, wild):
Tex...
The Landing of Cheilopogon melanurus
Photo by Markus Kammermann on Unsplash
The Landing of Cheilopogon melanurus
I
eye
the sea...
Light Bit Into the Earth
Photo by Michael D on Unsplash
Scaly retirees strolled by as a young man rummaged through his trunk. Binders and paperwork from St. Johns River College fluttered about. The papers settled; so, too, did his hands. The papers he sought: Bong...
Serve Your Own Verse: Photoperiodism
Taken by me [Lee Summers], 08/04/2026
“Serve Your Own Verse: Photoperiodism”
after Hala Alyan
Your affection grows as a
in the metal railing of heat.
Hey, hi, hello! I hope that y’all have been doing well as spooky season’s...
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ELD teacher in the South by day, queer, multi-racial, neurodivergent poet by night, I don't use AI when I write.
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