Tag: refusal
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Ghosted
This poem began as an attempt to track how a presence moves through a house without naming the presence or the emotion behind it. Its theme is refusal—what the body won’t do, what the haunting won’t accept, and how those refusals shape the space between them.
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After the Fire
After the Fire began as a study in aftermath—how heat lingers after gesture fails. It’s about the refusal to touch, and the way physical residue becomes the only language left between two people.
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Elegy for a Future Death
Elegy for a Future Death began as a refusal. I wanted to write an elegy that didn’t console, didn’t mythologize, didn’t reach for metaphor. The poem strips away atmosphere and sentiment, leaving only the physical residue of absence: chain, pan, towel, nail. It’s a lyric of erosion—of what remains when return is no longer possible.…