Tag: unsentimental tone
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Lake Ontario/Lake America
I wrote Lake Ontario / Lake America after reading about political renaming as a form of ownership. The poem examines how language tries to overwrite geography, but the object—the lake—remains indifferent.
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Reverse Erasure
Reverse Erasure began as a mirror to my earlier poem Erasure. I wanted to see what happens when destruction runs backward — when the horror of disappearance becomes a slow reclamation of form. The poem’s reverse sequence borrows from Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, but replaces cinematic violence with the mechanical violence of graphite, paper, and dust.…
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Evening Shades
I wrote Evening Shades after reading H.D.’s Evening and wanting to translate its floral disappearance into a diagnostic one. The poem examines how light and shadow behave inside the body—how visibility itself becomes a kind of haunting.
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Buying Sumo Oranges at Pike Place Market, Seattle
I wrote Buying Sumo Oranges at Pike Place Market, Seattle after watching the market’s light flatten fruit into objects of weight and memory. The poem examines how consumption and absence coexist—how touch and taste replace speech when grief becomes physical.