The Monster is the Closet is a personal testimony wrapped in allegory, tracing one child’s journey through fear, discovery, transformation, and finally love. Built on the colors of the spectrum, it celebrates identity not as a single moment of arrival, but as a brave unfolding toward confidence, truth, and sacred union.
Tag Archives: Poetry
Your Next Great Thing
Sometimes the search for meaning feels like rummaging through empty cupboards, waiting for inspiration to arrive and wondering if the well has finally run dry. Your Next Great Thing explores the torment and beauty of creative struggle, the fear of standing still, and the realization that perhaps the search itself is the thing we were always meant to give shape to.
The Pace
There comes a moment in every run when effort gives way to rhythm, noise fades, and the body remembers something the mind had forgotten. “The Pace” explores the strange stillness hidden inside motion, where breath, heartbeat, and awareness quietly fall into step.
Analog Girl
“Analog Girl” steps outside the childhood lens of Analog Patience and into the present, exploring what it means to navigate a world where everything is instant, connected, and endlessly available. Through her resistance, frustration, and eventual return to something more internal, this piece reflects on the quiet value of imagination in an age that rarely asks us to wait.
Sometimes the most vivid images aren’t on a screen at all.
Naked Wires
We like to believe we run our own code. Biology lays the base, society rewrites it, and somewhere along the way the system becomes exposed. Naked wires in open air. Vulnerable to influence, suggestion, and the slow corrosion of constant input. This piece explores that fragile boundary, where the need to be seen becomes the breach, and a switch can flip without warning.
Calling All Stations
A boy in a cellar, a man at the dial, and a signal that never quite resolves. This poem explores radio as a bridge across distance and time, shrinking the world while chasing away the loneliness of childhood and the deeper isolation of adulthood.
The Asymptotic Life
Time is not the tyrant we think it is. In dreams it bends. In trauma it fractures. And at the edge of life, it may stretch toward something that feels infinite. The Asymptotic Life explores the elastic nature of perception and the possibility that eternity isn’t a destination, but a limit we are always approaching.
Outside the Raging Fire
A meditation on distance, desire, and endurance. Outside the Raging Fire traces the human condition through elemental forces, memory, and restraint. This poem explores what it means to observe rather than burn, to persist without surrender, and to stand just beyond the heat where clarity, loss, and meaning quietly coexist
Call of the Void
Call of the Void is an acknowledgment of a strange, universal moment: standing at the edge of immensity and feeling the mind briefly test the boundary between presence and absence. Not despair, not desire—but awareness. The vastness doesn’t persuade; it humbles. This piece explores l’appel du vide as a rational, fleeting confrontation with scale, insignificance, and freedom—listening to the void without obeying it.
Flashpoint
At a certain point, pressure stops being theoretical.
When silence becomes the only option and restraint is framed as weakness, escalation feels inevitable. Flashpoint examines the moment where discontent accelerates, hypocrisy compounds, and violence begins feeding on itself—until justice is quietly traded for the illusion of security.
Mannino Acid 