
Poems and essays written to survive, to witness, and to name what others look away from—sometimes in the noble pursuit of not imploding, or dissolving into pillow screams and prolonged negotiations with the void.
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Most of what I publish here demands something of you. Political writing. Poetry. Work that, for the most part, answers to power and urgency.
This is the opposite. Starting now, every Friday, a story, a musing, or a reflection.
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Behind the Poem: 'Once in a Blue Moon'
This poem is a wish. I need to say that before anything else, because the whole logic of a blue moon — in folklore, in spiritual tradition, in the oldest layers of its meaning — is that it is the time...
The moon came back. It rose, and rose again—
two silver harvests crowding into May,
the orchards doubled, ripened, fell, and then
the second moon shone pale as borrowed day.
Such plenty — yet the few have sealed the store,
have...
When midnight softens,
every wall to blue,
and you breathe long,
the way a bow is drawn,
this room the only world,
and we came through,
your cello in my chest
before the dawn.
The rise and rumble
in its sleeping throe...
Behind the Poem: The Hunger Part
Aristotle said humans are driven by wonder. He called it thaumazein — the moment something breaks your expectations and forces you to pay attention again. He said it was the beginning of thought itself. He...
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I write poems and essays to make sense of the world, hold onto my humanity, and maybe add a little harmony where there’s too much noise.
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