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Feb 4
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Homunculi
We used to think life could be coaxed if you assembled the right materials and watched closely enough.
Jan 29
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The Creature of the Face
The world embeds its signals, no matter the species.
Dec 10, 2025
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Ouroboros
The serpent doesn’t circle you. It circles all of it.
Dec 3, 2025
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After the Work
It felt good to be dizzy with purpose...
Oct 29, 2025
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Bite
Teeth sharpen in the dank, split open the bone.
Oct 22, 2025
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The Fiction of Light
The rooster’s body requires the fiction of light.
Sep 24, 2025
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Even By Just Trying
My drool crusted around the edges. The collapse. The quiet in the gape.
Sep 4, 2025
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Glass Cities on My Skin
Every day I wake into someone else, stitched from scraps I don’t remember choosing.
Aug 27, 2025
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Aquariums That Cloud
Weather no longer weather, clouds rehearsed, heat rehearsed, the boardroom rehearsed.
Aug 20, 2025
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August 2019
Summer summer summer. It hummed on the tongue slower in the heat.
Aug 13, 2025
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The Man on the Moon
Sympathy is easy, Armstrong. But you needed empathy, and that, the public decided, was too much to give.
Aug 6, 2025
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