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  • Compliance is Efficiency

    Compliance is Efficiency

    A doctrine-voice poem where the system audits, cascades, and moves non-performing units below grade—cold recursion to a chilling clinch.

    18 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Morning River Notes

    Morning River Notes

    Four haiku river poems

    18 September 2025
    Poetry
  • A Tiny Deity

    A Tiny Deity

    A poem set at the river’s edge in spring, a child lifts fruit into sunlight—an ordinary act that becomes creation, renewal, and wonder.

    17 September 2025
    Poetry
  • Day-Possum

    Day-Possum

    A ringtail possum scurries along the powerline at noon, drawn out of hiding by mango scent — a stillness poem of summer abundance.

    12 September 2025
    Poetry
  • The Letter

    The Letter

    A quiet stillness poem: a woman hesitates before an unopened envelope as rain and silence stretch.

    5 September 2025
    Poetry
  • A Process for the Creation of a Revenant

    A Process for the Creation of a Revenant

    A ritual poem of death and rebirth, where incantation speaks to life, silence, and the border in-between.

    3 September 2025
    Poetry
  • The Oars, Forgotten

    The Oars, Forgotten

    An observational poem: rowers adrift mid-river, oars forgotten, a magpie watching in the afternoon stillness.

    30 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Survival is Entropy

    Survival is Entropy

    A system-voice poem where doctrine fractures, survival.exe and order.exe looping toward collapse.

    27 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Unworded

    Unworded

    A miniature stillness poem: broken chair, empty box, silence heavier than speech, words withheld.

    22 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Gordian Knot

    Gordian Knot

    A recursive system-voice poem: vows and threads tighten into a tapestry of knots, breath held against collapse.

    20 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Liminal Ground

    Liminal Ground

    A quiet observational prose poem: a grassy hollow, fig trees, and magpies in a moment of campus stillness.

    15 August 2025
    Flash Fiction
  • Hypergeometric

    Hypergeometric

    A surreal flash poem: an impossible body sprawled under headlights, angles twitching in uneasy stillness

    13 August 2025
    Poetry
  • The Hill

    The Hill

    A mythic poem of endurance: stone, shoulder, and sun in relentless dialogue with gravity and persistence.

    6 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Nonexistence is Mandatory

    Nonexistence is Mandatory

    A system-voice poem: the enemy contaminates order, excision demanded, survival rewritten as nonexistence.

    3 August 2025
    Poetry
  • Deep Blue Sky

    Deep Blue Sky

    A reflective flash piece: childhood friendship, betrayal, and a blue sky that lingers long after the moment.

    30 July 2025
    Flash Fiction
  • On Saturday

    On Saturday

    An observational prose poem: early run by the river, ferries, rowers, birds, and the city slowly waking.

    25 July 2025
    Poetry, Prose
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