200th Post, What I’ve Learnt About: Writer’s Voice, Accessibility, Pretentious Bastards, and Taboo Topics

I began this blog later 2020 after struggling to speak or express myself through video. I was frustrated. My longtime agoraphobia was heightened by the pandemic but I had to time to be inspired, I had freedom to live and work within my own schedule, and I was busy with various projects. Unfortunately, I wasn't …

Poem and Thoughts About Clouds Over the Valley

Cumulus bundled mountain line / Our Appalachian remnants / Adorned by clouds built grand, enshrine / A reliant independence / Be celestial reflection in rupture / Bursting rolling hillscape / Scale the unstructured structure / Billowing, blooming, take shape / Air and water mine to climb / To find find footholds after stepping / Off the highest cliff

A Poem for the Unpaid

are you afraid to be unpaid/recompense-less pretty haunt/for wishful blissful serenade/may underway expulsion daunt/ring the bell and yell grenade/all such exiled songs now flaunt/bombs away blows an unmade/lay away day who never dawned/gone astray withdrew conveyed/so worry not you will be paid

Why I Write .3

[CW: CSA] I protect myself under layers of analysis and resolution, thickly padded thoughts processing everything the raw core of myself spits out. Sometimes the original material has been recycled and repackaged before it gets to my conscious self. Writing helps understand the workings of this protective system so I may be aware of the …

Why I Write .2

I write because it's good for me. It stimulates my brain and reconnects me. Both holistic and highly scientific, this form of health is transformative, it’s transcendent, it moves and carries-- I do it because writing peels back layers and extrapolates. Writing knows that both I and what I carry are transported by assigning words …

In Haiku – Describing Gender with Language

A collection of poems hypocritically conveying sentiments about language and how we fail to express gender with words, written by a non-Japanese person with only a vague understanding of proper English emulations of haiku or senryū. describing nothingprescriptivist and follied—you will drown trying+words shall come rain downthe puddles will not be stillstep in them or …