Dispatches

Poetry, essays, and fragments from the interior.

All Poetry Essay In Progress
July 2025 Essay
They were right about the rot.

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…

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July 2025 Poetry
For Cheri

~ 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…

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July 2025 Poetry
Prayer for Chris

~ 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…

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July 2025 Poetry
For Michael

~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…

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July 2025 Poetry
Big, Beautiful, Borrowed

~ You weren’t radicalized by one lie.You were softened by slow erosion.Not tricked; tuned. The need to belong hummed in harmony with a louder voice.You didn’t reason it…

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June 2025 Uncategorized
Father’s Day 2025

~Upon a time I believedyour voice could stop the rainstorms.You stood at the helm of my burgeoning life,a well coiffed Gibraltar;the one who knew how the world worked,which…

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