Eye of the Mountain
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Writing about breaking into reality.
Essays, memoir and poetry on attention, grief, belonging and aliveness. What does it take to live beyond survival and projection? How do we move towards participation and thriving?
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Porous
Considers the body as a porous, changing field whose boundaries expand with movement and perception, replacing the fantasy of a fixed self with participation in an environment.
Faking of the Faking
Examines the recursive loss of authenticity when imitation copies imitation and performance replaces contact with an original impulse. Form survives while lived meaning becomes progressively hollow.
Dating Profiles
Satirizes dating-app self-presentation by making projection, maternal longing, rejection practice, and domestic expectations explicit. The joke exposes how profiles market fantasies instead of introducing real people.
Facing the Void
Stages surrender at the cliff where the former self and its guarantees end. Leaping becomes an act of love and faith: freedom lies not in securing a landing but in no longer requiring one.
A Pariddle of Feral
Inside us live we have a hierarchy of creatures. This myth-poem is about captivity, ferality, and the parts of us that carry our souls to freedom.
You call it a wasteland?
Some people see ruin. I see the raw material of rebirth. This is a spoken-word meditation on destruction and what can grow in its ashes.
The Weight
Trauma doesn’t just wound — it weighs. This is a litany of the heaviness I’ve carried, written not to collapse under it but to name it, so it can finally be set down.
Between the Abyss and the Void
Locates a narrow path between overwhelm and disappearance, the two directions a traumatized self can fall. Balance means remaining embodied on that edge without being consumed or erased.
Father to Son
Imagines the initiating words of the father the author needed and the father he hopes to become. It replaces inherited violence with guidance that joins strength, belonging, permission, and accountable love.
Right here, right now, right you
Presence can feel elusive — like something always out of reach. This piece is a playful reminder that the only doorway is the one right in front of us: here, now, and the person you already are.
Yesterday Grief, Today Mischief
Our moods can feel like prisons — grief, scarcity, rejection, emptiness. But they always pass, and when they do, something new arrives: mischief, lightness, curiosity. This piece is about honoring emotional extremes as teachers instead of fighting them.
Talking to a Ghost
For years, when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t just see myself — I saw a presence that haunted me. This piece is about facing that ghost differently, and how learning to speak with it became a way of reclaiming my own reflection.