counter/field is a place where different kinds of poems meet. Each piece belongs to a current—dark, still, mythic, or procedural—and readers often move between them in their own way.
The main currents
Fieldwork (dark side) — street, river, weather, night pieces; distortion, unease, shadowed observation.
Counter-field (light side) — clarity, stillness, attention, minimal movement, brief recognitions.
Mythic/Occult — ritual language, symbolic pressure, strange visitations.
System Voice — procedural logic, doctrine, recursion, collapse.
Within these, recurring threads surface and resurface:
river, memory, weather, recursion, hospital, night.
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.
These sit lightly in the archive—they guide without interrupting the field.