The creature

On consciousness

Consciousness cannot be (consciously) subtracted from, only added to.

Slow apocalypse

The future

The future is the instantiation of expectation, of anticipation.

The poetry reader

I disbelieve

I disbelieve in the irreducibles.

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Paradise Lost

With what?

With what am I uncorrelated?

The contemplation

Absolutely indispensable

Reverie and sleep and dream are absolutely indispensable components of my creative process.

Fall bounty

Simultaneity

Simultaneity is a necessary component of experience.

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Daring to look

The unique

The unique cannot proliferate.

Bird bottle

The worst

The worst are those who claim to know what they do not know.

Crow lady

I am

I am a farce to be reckoned with.

Dancers

Beauty is

Beauty is a sufficient distance (perceptual, moral, interpretative, or aesthetic) on intimacies.

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Bird in the light

I am

I am an illusion of a sophism.

In the dark of night

By deceit

We are all, ultimately, defeated by deceit.

The crow watches

Smaller of mind

No one is smaller of mind than a totalitarian.

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Winter night in the city

The lower my opinion of humanity

The lower my opinion of humanity goes with experience, the more I am willing (eager) to see humanity improved or replaced.

The literary ley lines

More room

The more men could make women "other,"
the more room there was for them to love them.

Autumn mountains

A barrier

Price is a barrier, nothing more (though many are heavily-invested in pretending otherwise).

Does this bug you?

"Political"

"Political" is the least savory epithet.

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Sail away

Unerringly

All of my emotions are unerringly inaccurate.

Action heroes

A poem that arises

A poem that arises via calculation
will prove as good as a love that does.

Woman in red

Wealth and power

Wealth and power shall ever accrue to those who offer to help others leave this world for a better.

Valley view

Too constrained

Humans are too constrained to ever be considered truly free.

The vision

A poem should change me

A poem should change me,
however trivially,
or expose sympathetically
my inability to change.

Butterflies & flowers

On reconciliation

Reconciliation can only follow restitution.

Dreaming of romance

We are not smart enough

We are not smart enough in anything else; why should we be smart enough to create something smarter than we?

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A friend in the rain

Passion alone

Passion alone always ends
in disaster.

Pig bard

Justice

Justice is the word we use to describe the outcome that we prefer.

Moon-lit sea

Blessed are they

Blessed are they who long for necessity and that which is inevitable.

Consumption

So proficient

I have been so proficient at keeping my secrets
that I no longer know what they were.

Valley Voices: A Literary Review

My poem "Compulsory Hedonism, Elective Trauma" has been published in the Fall 2023 (V23 N2) issue of Valley Voices: A Literary Review. Looking forward to reading the rest of the issue, which is "A Special Issue on Civil Rights."

Abstract fish

In conversation

The one most likely

The one most alert to an apparent lack of nuance is the one most likely to have missed something entirely.