Tag Archives: Poetry

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.

Survey Says

A meditation on spectacle—how modern entertainment reframes suffering as competition, humiliation as content, and moral distance as victory. From primetime sports to reality television, the poem interrogates the quiet bargain we make as viewers: validation purchased at the expense of someone else’s disgrace. What begins as observation ends as implication, leaving the audience to sit with an uncomfortable truth—the show only works because we keep showing up.

Inescapable Cruelty Engine

In an age of infinite feeds and instant certainty, outrage moves faster than understanding. This piece explores how belief shapes perception, how spectacle replaces empathy, and how we find ourselves entangled—again and again—in a system that rewards reaction while tragedy persists.

Langan’s on 47th

A brief moment before a Broadway show, a corner seat at a Manhattan bar, and a stranger who reminded us that some places still resist walls. Langan’s on 47th is a small reflection on openness, shared space, and the quiet human grace that can surface when we least expect it.