Tag: fieldwork
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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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Storm Season
A short update on the recent weather, the direction of the work, and what’s next for counter/field.
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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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November Notes: A descent
It’s been a while since the last big update and quite a lot has changed. First off, you may have noticed that the site is looking visually cleaner; I’ve made sure that each poem has an image and the page format is now symmetrical—it was looking a bit jagged before. I’ve also done a bit…
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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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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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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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Survival is Order
An Orwellian system-voice poem: doctrine declares survival through hierarchy, order, obedience — chaos is death.
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In Denpasar
A fractured poem: memory splinters in a hotel dining room, voices overlapping until they can’t be separated.
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Holding Pattern
A hospital-series prose piece: a plane circles, fuel leaking, landing uncertain — waiting suspended in air.