Ouroboros

The serpent doesn’t circle you. It circles all of it.

Dec 3 • 

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November 2025

Haiku

The hours leer at me

Nov 20 • 

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You must come to art

who says they say

Nov 12 • 

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The House & the World

In the house there was me, and outside the house there was the world, and every morning I had to choose a door.

Nov 6 • 

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October 2025

After the Work

It felt good to be dizzy with purpose...

Oct 29 • 

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Bite

Teeth sharpen in the dank, split open the bone.

Oct 22 • 

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September 2025

The Fiction of Light

The rooster’s body requires the fiction of light.

Sep 24 • 

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jesus didn’t mean for this to come out during drinks with christ

coins in fish guts, teeth in bread, always a crowd and never a reason.

Sep 17 • 

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Elephant Chain

Off the bat this would read better if

Sep 10 • 

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Even By Just Trying

My drool crusted around the edges. The collapse. The quiet in the gape.

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

Glass Cities on My Skin

Every day I wake into someone else, stitched from scraps I don’t remember choosing.

Aug 27 • 

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Aquariums That Cloud

Weather no longer weather, clouds rehearsed, heat rehearsed, the boardroom rehearsed.

Aug 20 • 

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