I write what refuses silence
· Reflection
Joy is not happiness. I want to make that distinction clearly before I say anything else. Happiness is circumstantial. Joy is something deeper and stranger — it can coexist with pain.
Paired Poem
Embrace the Joy Within
· Relationships
February 2025 was about reconnection and honest communication: returning calls, dropping the polished version of the story, and letting care land where it was meant to land.
Paired Poem
The Loudest Way to Love
· On Writing
I draft digitally and revise hard. Most poems take multiple passes before they feel honest enough to keep.
Paired Poem
Whisper of Cascading Waters
· Recovery
January 2025 was triage season: another state, a drastically smaller daily radius, health first, and writing reduced to whatever truth could be carried from one day to the next.
Paired Poem
Fragments of Solace
· Travel Journal
The Los Cabos stay from December 17, 2024 through January 2, 2025 was an exhale at the edge of a difficult year: sister, Maine-circle friends, beach light, and a warm rested beginning to 2025.
Paired Poem
Reflections at Dusk
· Reflection
Someone wronged me a few years ago in a way I won't detail. The aftermath was what interested me, poetically: the weeks when I was walking around with a hot coal of resentment.
Paired Poem
Grace Over Vengeance
· On Writing
There is a line in my original draft that I was certain was the best line I'd ever written. It was doing four things at once. It was also completely wrong for the poem.
Paired Poem
Albatross
· Life & Writing
I was in a coffee shop when my phone showed the first sale notification. I ordered a second coffee I didn't need and sat there for forty-five minutes doing nothing in particular except feeling things.
Paired Poem
Unveiled
· Journal
A quiet September at home — the kind of stillness that asks the questions you've been too busy to hear. Real life at a human scale, an ordinary afternoon with Rose, and the slower work of getting things right.
Paired Poem
Apology