Some lurked in closets. Others scratched at bedroom windows during summer storms, fed by half-heard conversations and imaginations running far ahead of reason. The Cr’apple is the story of one such creature, and the quiet revelation decades later that transformed a family tree into a family legend.
Tag Archives: Poetry
Ghost Runner on Third
There were never quite enough kids to fill every position, so imagination did the rest. Ghost Runner on Third is a tribute to sandlot baseball, unwritten childhood rules, and the quiet code of honor forged on long summer afternoons behind a weathered barn, where friendship always mattered more than keeping score.
The Density of Destiny
The Density of Destiny explores the strange intersection of astrophysics and consciousness, where gravity becomes memory, time bends beneath experience, and a lifetime gathers the weight of meaning. A meditation on aging, mortality, and our place in the cosmos.
Potsy Gopher
Potsy Gopher is the story of a childhood imaginary friend who felt every bit as real as the world around him. Born from Saturday morning cartoons, spinning vinyl, shortwave radios, and basement adventures, he became a collaborator in wonder, a defender against shadows, and a companion through the analog landscapes of youth. Though time eventually carried him away, some friendships never truly disappear. They live on in memory, imagination, and the dreams that time cannot betray.
Ornamental Ember
A meditation on inheritance, entropy, and the strange beauty of what remains after fire, family, fear, and civilization have all had their say.
The Monster is the Closet
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.
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.
Mannino Acid 