Tag: domestic ritual
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Ghosting
“Ghosting” emerged from the quiet aftermath of survival—after cancer, after loss, after the rituals that remain. It’s a poem about haunting not as horror, but as intimacy: the idea that love, memory, and consequence linger in objects, gestures, and the dog’s bark. I wrote it as a speculative elegy, imagining my own absence as a…
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Reclamation Song
Reclamation Song emerged from my refusal to inherit grief as myth. I wanted to write a poem that dismantled lineage without dramatizing it—where the speaker doesn’t mourn but revises. The tree is not metaphor; it’s archive, reliquary, and burden. Each stanza performs a gesture: excavation, disinheritance, refusal, and rebuilding. I invoked Tsi’yugunsini to align with…
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Reclamation Song
Reclamation Song (after “On Belonging” by Zoe Bayer)I will open the windows tonight—not to free ghosts—but to welcome the whine of sirens—the thrum of HVACs spilling heatinto this bruise-blue hush of evening,onto this cracked porcelain sky.A rodeo blares on a TV screenfrom the neighbor’s garage—bareback bronc grunts playedover a Bluetooth speakerwhile he drinks and power-washes—the…