Dispatches

~ Behold the last of your mercy:an old soldier, winter in his knees;weary from bleeding that the young might have voice.Treacherous are the lords who excise tongues,dub questions…

It begins before it begins. Nomads. Refugees. Seekers.They find instruments in the rubble and are called to a circle by the slow heartbeat of a metal drum -…

~ Bless you;marvelous horde of righteous patriotswho stood, as Isaiah once did,crying, “Here am I. Send me,”offering not just yourselves,but your childrenas conscripts into the breach. You knew…

0) Golden Rule Don’t be an asshole.Be tough on lies, gentle on people. Body counts compound.Downshift. Say what you’re doing -Price the damage - Then decide. 1) Agency…

It’s not a loophole.It’s a covenant. A newborn takes its first breath in a land and that land says, “You’re one of us.”That’s how the story was written.…

~She kneelsnot in prayer,but to touch the earth.Breach the darkened breathof loam and ancient ores.Her hands teeming with languageas old as stars. The earth unfurlspast its veilof grit…

Putrid, thumbed through, bleeding into the baskets.Slow, angry poison - half price!A cure-all in a vial marked vengeance,double-charged for the antidote. They promised a reckoningand gave us a…

~ Behold: You are unyielding but even iron breaks its allegiances when the poles shift.Magnets fall. Not in collapse, but in molting — the shedding before clarity. A…

~ I kneel to the dust where he last stood,and breathe until I find him in the silence.May the ache teach my body to stay.O nameless root beneath…

~He was a man in service of the seeking.Sworn to the storm.Never settled. Never still.Tuned to the frequency behind the noise;chasing the next flash of truth,the crack in…