Walk in a Windstorm
Walk in a Windstorm is a free-write, written during a contemplative walk on the beach in the middle of a windstorm created by a hurricane off the coast.... Read More
Stim and co-regulate
A villanelle on stimming and co-regulating nervous systems, with a warm, tender, tactile neurodivergent framing.... Read More
I love you, ok, byebye
I love you, ok, byebye is a love poem in the form of a villanelle and, quietly, a conversation with past ideas of love and death. Beneath its strict form runs Sylvia Plath’s dark absurdity—and silliness.... Read More
Rowing
Rowing is a free-write (writing produced in one continuous, unbroken pass, composing start to finish without pausing) written after repeated listenings of Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street. It's a response and challenge to Anne Sexton's Rowing and The Rowing Endeth from The Awful Rowing Toward God. It explicitly rejects the Christian teleology the author grew up in, and reframes Anne's metaphor of rowing as a psychological journey rather than spiritual.... Read More
The invisible door
the invisible door the cruelest of all barriers gives hope of an opening no indication where, no instructions how worst of all it lets you see the other side maybe Gandalf will give me the word for friend in old elvish in new elvish or does the dark tongue show the handle? what if on […]... Read More
Colibris
Colibris the tiny descendant of dinosaurs now living in a world of giants fragile, delicate, afraid of a butterfly yet still fast and daring Once the god of war and returning martyrs now a symbol of luck beauty joy love … love if only we could all have that character arc to wake up in […]... Read More
Anger
is the pressure valve for pain to cause pain? hurt people hurt people? don’t mess with me asshole you can’t hurt me anymore than I already am but I can make you feel my pain and then some regretting the words as they leave my mouth is anger a safety valve to release pain? when […]... Read More
Masks
Masks I was this many years old when I was born a castaway cast out of the me’s that were, but really weren’t. today I learned that the distance and boundary between me and the other was unconsciously self made to be quite honest I didn’t expect Prufrock’s time to prepare a face to meet […]... Read More
Twins
Twins I’ve known the twins all my life unnamed in childhood and ever near dancing around me taunting bullying unwelcome and unexpected made their presence felt intimidatingly tall long dark locks dragging night behind her Dolores looms over everyone moving slowly she casts all in shadow leaving memories of darkness a fool’s hope for light […]... Read More
Ageism, Aging and Getting Old in Tech
Respect your elders. This is a seemingly culturally universal sentiment that is older than written language itself. For good reason too. Back in prehistoric times, any member of your species that managed to get old, was either lucky or did something right that helped them survive. A little bit of reverence wouldn’t be a bad […]... Read More