Tag: counterfield
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Sine Qua Non
In the quiet machinery of a hospital room, breath becomes the only measure that matters. Monitors, pressure, oxygen, and a single circle of light hold the body in place while language begins to break apart. A poem about collapse, necessity, and the thin line between care and oblivion.
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Basement Level Two
I walk through hard light and fractured shadows. My footsteps echo before the drone absorbs them.
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The Last Bus
A late-night scene near a bus stop changes when a person walks through a pool of light and stops in shadow. The insects fall silent, the breeze stills, and the speaker waits as the moment deepens. A poem about night, attention, and the subtle shift from calm to unease.
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The Beforetimes
In the cooking room, the kettle begins to sing, and her voice answers — calling a name I no longer trust belongs to me.
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Under the Bridge
The damp comes off the river, seeping into clothing, and the sodium light struggles under the bridge’s arc. When the curlew’s wail rises with the storm, the night strikes its bargain with the river, and silence follows
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Bitch; a reflection.
A layered reflection on loyalty, exposure, and refusal: Carolyn Kizer’s “Bitch” occluded beneath anatomical engraving, pop-lyric fragments, and a haunting Dorthia Cotterell lyric.
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Sodium Zone
City bridge after hours: mattress, tent, algae-slick rocks. The light cuts, metal scrapes, light returns—and the scene holds.
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Little Hooks
A poem of moons and tides, of memory’s splinters and small betrayals that lodge like hooks, refusing to leave.
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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.
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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.
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Survival is Entropy
A system-voice poem where doctrine fractures, survival.exe and order.exe looping toward collapse.
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Gordian Knot
A recursive system-voice poem: vows and threads tighten into a tapestry of knots, breath held against collapse.
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Hypergeometric
A surreal flash poem: an impossible body sprawled under headlights, angles twitching in uneasy stillness
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The Hill
A mythic poem of endurance: stone, shoulder, and sun in relentless dialogue with gravity and persistence.
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Nonexistence is Mandatory
A system-voice poem: the enemy contaminates order, excision demanded, survival rewritten as nonexistence.
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Stuck Out the Back
A counter-field poem: a glimpse behind the butcher’s door, a hand caught, a face unmoving, silence closing in.