Archive - An Ominous Mistake

What if my Poetry is Broken

A poem written during a strange and weightless period when I thought I would never write again.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

New York City Waterworks

Six stanzas flying in loose formation over a city of pyramids

May 5

April 2025

Open letter to the goblin perched on my brother’s shoulder slowly sawing off his right arm

A message in a bottle about tragedy and adaptation

Apr 21 •

Diamond Dust and Gold Filigree

Springtime in Paris so here's a poem for my lovebug 🐞 written in a fugue state in the darkest hours of the night

Apr 11 •

I can't let go of my octopus and it won't let go of me

An essay about wood and metal, family roots and uprooted trees, a rollicking ramble over the seven seas

Apr 3 •

March 2025

Fragments spun from dream-sand and nightshades

A poem about the divine, a barely-edited dream journal entry, and a passing thought in the shape of a wave

Mar 16 •

February 2025

Fragments tissés de pétales et de gravats, de bordel et de poésie

A handful of sexy French poems (I translated one for your reading pleasure) penned during my (short) career in the early days of the Bordel de la Poésie

Feb 23 •

January 2025

When anger leaves the body

Trigger Warning: a breathless poem about loss with various side effects that may include breaking your heart into a million tiny pieces

Jan 27 •

QWERTY/AZERTY, etc.

A(nother) poem about my love-hate relationship with computers / office workstations / man-machine interfaces / the power-tools of white-collar work.

Jan 24 •

Fragments spun from brass filings, sawdust, loose tea

First fragment of the year, a found poem of disparate elements, dreams and snippets that have no business on the page together, but here we are

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Fragments spun from cigarette ash, carbon dioxide, roadside gravel

Trigger warning: this selection deals with heavy themes including suicide, which need to be talked about openly, but rest assured I am not in that…

Dec 13, 2024 •

November 2024

POV Attending the Spoken Word Open Mic at the (Au) Chat Noir café in the 11th

A Friends With Benefits situation spanning 12 years (on and off) and counting

Nov 13, 2024 •

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