Poems
Occasional verse — on memory, war, consciousness, and the grief of almost-understanding. Click any title to read the full poem.
5 Poems · Memory · War · Knowledge · Understanding · Mystery
I
Memory as Distortion, Not Truth
"In chambers dim where recollection feigns its fragile art…"
II
The Unanswering Heavens
"Beneath a sky that once remembered lullabies, now fractured into ash…"
III
The Burden and the Becoming
"To think is but to trespass where the mercifully blind are spared…"
IV
The Proof That Would Not Hold
"I nearly had it — balanced on the edge of knowing's narrow ledge…"
V
The Quiet Observation
"Upon a night too still to trust its borrowed cloak of calm…"