Tag: experimental lyric
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Vigil
The poem’s central tension—what it means to breathe through another—emerged from thinking about dependence, care, and the porousness between bodies. I wanted the poem to feel like a held moment, a vigil in the literal sense: a watchfulness, a staying‑with.
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Signal Fault
Signal Fault began as an attempt to write a poem built entirely from sound and fracture. I wanted to see how far I could push minimalism without losing emotional pressure. The poem emerged from thinking about how identity behaves under distortion—how a name, a body, or a moment can feel like a signal rising through…
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Morove Cemetery
Morove Cemetery” began as a walk through memory and inheritance. I wanted to write a poem that refused sentimentality while still holding grief in its architecture. The poem is built from objects—signs, stones, flowers, fences—that carry the emotional weight without commentary. It’s a landscape elegy, where the dead are marked by what survives them: rust,…
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TICONDEROGA
TICONDEROGA began as a meditation on the physical relationship between body and object—specifically, the pencil as a site of memory, refusal, and violence. I wanted to write a poem that treated the pencil as a forensic artifact. The bite marks, the flaking paint, the taste of wood—all of these are real, bodily details. The poem…
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Wail
Wail began as a test of restraint. I wanted to write a death poem without ornament, without metaphor, without reaching for comfort. The whale song emerged early—strange, bodily, and distant—and I kept it because it refused explanation. The poem is about sound that leaves the body and doesn’t come back. It’s about the final sleep…