Poise & Finesse Will Carry You Through

This piece was made by cutting bits out, collaging together and then editing for flow, word choice and structure from several interesting little posts from 2017 and 2016 that were a little too slippery to really have any meaning; this one is still pretty slippery but I dialed the randomness and anti-coherence down a lot.

A Symbol of Longing

A Symbol of Longing A chance of deathCircumvents your layersNeeding a planting of rootsTo bring fruition A riled weather cloudBounces through the skyRequiring a flourish of trumpetsTo bring rains A chance of happinessPierces your armorBut you are running too close to the boneTo grasp it A little liePenetrates your earsNeeding beliefTo extend tendrils A silver […]

Happenstance + commentaries and updates

Happenstance Summer dreams all fly in a glitter of dustUnder drama the pile grows staleSeries of ages to walk throughSome happy, some sadSome drama piles on the sadnessAglitter the lashes flutterSome dreams grow by stagesAglitter the trauma fades inSome dreams leap by boundsA recollection drifts down the pipe, bursting into flames;Speculation rings you upA tremulous […]

The Dealer of the Cards and the Windows Between Us

While the both of us and the rest were all locked up, ‘freedom’ spoke its little voice, how we had all been wasting her for years and years beyond years. While the people were not of a mind to travel before, yet locked up travel called to them when they were trapped.

A note on the utility of gender-free pronouns in literature

Consider the phrase “the Raven of Stars begins xyr dance” which is what I was writing (for the Discordian Postcard Conspiracy) the first time I decided I required a multiple genderless possessive. In my case, I wanted to specify that despite being a ‘the’ the Raven of Stars was not-singular yet not-separated entities, and also that […]