from 3.4.23 newsletter "I give you permission..." …to fuck up publicly. To change your deadlines on the fly. To be so unbelievably...

I am not looking at the time. the storm passes overhead rain batters roof and windows the damp air is cold smells of musty earthworms and...

12:40pm I return to discarded fragments of poetry from The Timid Wild dreams of twisting decay corpses full of splinters and chipping...

from 2.1.23 newsletter Friends, The final stretch of winter is upon us here in Ohio. Snow barely dusts the grass outside my bedroom...

2:22pm ritual as practice in creating meaning turning our operation into conversation, so as to sound more like ourselves love as a river...

12:35am day dream fades to night dream sheds it costume behind the curtains heavy eyelids opens a portal from one realm to another...

3:27pm Formless. When does the space above us become SKY? How do we decide where that is? We walk the horizon line following the path of...

from 1.2.23 newsletter Friends, I am sure many of us have been inundated with talk of the New Year this past week. Whether it be the...

I am not doing well. I am doing fine. Both are true. I need a thousand-year break where I can rest under the moss and become cool like...

do you apologize to hear ITS OKAY or can you swallow down a THANKS BUT NO THANKS with acceptance leave without thinking a battle was lost...

from 12.1.22 newsletter Friends, After a long and challenging November, I recently spoke to a dear friend about the seeming...

11:11am how fleeting we are these societies these bodies this species on this undulating rock lit by this dying fireball hurtling around...

from 11.1.22 newsletter ***TW/CW: heavy talk of death, terminal illness*** Friends, This month has been nonstop chaos and joy. I have...

This day last year, I was at OSU Newark next to the pond and I wrote SONG FOR SLEEPING as I was wrapping up work on TAKE THIS WITH YOU....

from 10.3.22 newsletter Friends, Welcome to October - I hope these first few days have been kind to you. I considered putting this out...

from 9.1.22 newsletter Friends, It has been quite some time since you’ve heard from me, and for that, I apologize. Through chatting with...

I write about my sexual assault like the punchline of a horror story tough crowd, they say tighten it up, they say

from 8.8.22 newsletter Friends, Every week that I write this newsletter, it’s a struggle between the parts of me that love writing and...

from 8.1.22 newsletter Friends, Today, I celebrate both the festival of Lammas/Lughnasadh (the halfway point between the summer solstice...

from 6.20.22 newsletter Friends, I was going to do a part 2 to last weeks newsletter on loss around Father’s Day, but honestly, I had my...