anxiety

Stressful Tuesday

I elevate my head to make sure blood is gathering there And I see Whirlpool Stormcloud Frightening visages that should have left In the haze of childhood But these are rotting days And we don’t do the math anymore Pericles Penumbra And when you alleviate The tension in your muscles The whole body goes slackContinue reading “Stressful Tuesday “

Brain Chemistry

Your voice in the windCalling in a way that can’t be silencedPerforates my eardrums Runs me ragged through the streetsAnd there is no place of silenceNo call to answerIn the halls of the deadWe walk onReap and sowShrink and grow In your memoryAlways in the shadowOf your damned memory

Lexapro

I’m rattled on the inside Like the brain concussing against the steel wall of my unbreakable skull The dusk gleams off my helmet as I ride onward Famine– But that’s okay I’ve come to expect this sort of treatment Starved for meaning and The Word Like dopamine on loan With interest payments– Put what remainsContinue reading “Lexapro”

Creator Journals 6/9/25

I’m temporarily changing my system. I got a little bit stuck in Chapter 5, so I decided I needed to focus a bit more on pre-planning. From now on, for every day I spend writing, I’m going to spend another day vigorously outlining in detail. So far that’s going well. I have an outline forContinue reading “Creator Journals 6/9/25”

WD 215 “Parallax TV”

A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Parallax TV Like a tree armed with needles A sinister synergy of malice and growth Affixed to the cable lining the sky You keep the elements running through your ley lines A sovereign distraction from the chorus of demons There is Nowhere but up No chainsContinue reading “WD 215 “Parallax TV””

WD 212 “All There Is”

A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. All There Is Bring me another vision Something translucent to place like a filter over my eyes While I watch TV Looped animation, your days and hours like a pixelated GIF French fries dipped in wine Until you tell me the world is what we makeContinue reading “WD 212 “All There Is””

WD 203 “Shadow Kid”

A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Shadow Kid Blink and you’ll miss me An afterimage on a polaroid camera You see the fearful wince between a smile and a smirk Optical illusion between two equidistant lines It cuts a figure in the green negative space where you looked Too close to theContinue reading “WD 203 “Shadow Kid””

WD 200 “Alice of Ends”

A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Alice of Ends The answer is in the question And yet, you go on Searching every toadstool for a magic serum of personal growth When did we get lost in this Wonderland Were we beguiled by cheshire smiles, Walmart hats and March Hairs To keep inContinue reading “WD 200 “Alice of Ends””

197 “Chiron Alarm”

A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Chiron Alarm I can see over a thousand miles Entryways to dark beginnings A picture of a Subway tunnel And I’m the only one waiting for the train I don’t know where it goes When it stops Or what order resides beyond the boundaries of sleepContinue reading “197 “Chiron Alarm””

WD 192 “The Crown Weighs Heavy”

A poem inspired by The Prince of Night Winds. The Crown Weighs Heavy Speak your truth to me, sovereign one Born king and keeper of the cradle It rocks on top of a tree, which is madness Because who in their right mind would put a baby in a tree? I would. And I wouldContinue reading “WD 192 “The Crown Weighs Heavy””