Tag: surreal poetry
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Dream Thinking
Cloud Thinking began as a meditation on my dog Cane’s dream logic, but quickly unraveled into a recursive elegy—one that ritualizes grief, football loss, and the surreal grammar of domestic life. The poem leans into speculative consequence: how a bowl of chicken concentrate, a twitching leg, or a cloud formation can become mythic gestures. I…
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Flight Track
Flight Track began as a meditation on the quiet obsession of watching a plane’s progress across a screen. I was drawn to the emotional architecture of measurement—how altitude, speed, and descent become metaphors for survival. The poem uses restraint and ritual to explore what it means to track motion without touching it, and how even…
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The Sheep Tooth Reliquary
The Sheep-Tooth ReliquaryMy wisdom teeth exist in pickled beauty,in a gold-capped mason jar.I take great delight in looking at all that lost wisdom every morning.They don’t haunt me—not like the colon they removed in a total colectomy,incinerated at the height of the pandemic—no goodbye, no ceremony,not even one last proper shit.But those teeth, they have…