counter/field is a place where three kinds of writing meet and move through one another.
Each piece belongs to one of the project’s three modes:
The Three Modes
Field
Pieces oriented toward light, clarity, breath, attention, and quiet recognitions.
They tend to move toward openness and small moments of revelation.
Counterfield
Work that turns inward or downward—shadow, pressure, recursion, distortion, fracture.
These are the descent pieces: darker, tighter, and more internally charged.
Fieldwork
Observational poems drawn from the real world: river, street, weather, night.
Often grounded, sometimes strange, always attentive.
These modes overlap constantly. Many pieces move between them, or hold more than one mode at once.
Threads That Recur
Across modes, certain motifs surface and return:
river, memory, weather, night, stillness, pressure, recursion.
These threads form connections across otherwise different kinds of writing.
Entry Points
Three pieces that sketch the breadth of the field:
The Ferry and the Tree — fieldwork and stillness held together by weather and light.
After the Storm — a mythic turn inside an ordinary square.
The Beforetimes — descent: voice fracture, memory distortion, shadow.
If you want more
Chasing Clouds — evening stillness with a strange edge.
Compliance is Efficiency — the system voice at full pressure.
A Tiny Deity — quiet observation at the riverbank.
Under the Bridge — mythic weather under sodium light.
Navigation
You can move through the field using the tags at the bottom of each piece, or follow the guided paths above.
Updates and reflections appear on the Updates page.
counter/field is defined in greater detail on the Project Overview page.
These sit lightly in the archive—they guide without interrupting the field.