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Handled

This poem traces the insult of polished concern in a life already heavy with real suffering. What remains is a record of false tenderness, procedural distance, and the rage of knowing the difference.

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Cowardly Lion

A literary mouth-off dressed in Oz imagery: this poem moves through yellow roads, false kingdoms, and poppy fields to ask what courage means when silence has already chosen its side.

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Actual Reassurances

A poem about comfort that comes sideways. It lingers in strange timing, old symbols, and one moment of kindness that cuts through everything else.

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A nurse who has spent years holding the line for everyone else is forced to confront the limits of devotion. A sharp poem about helplessness, procedure, and the awful fluency of continuing after your life has split open.

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Take Me Off Mute

A blistering declaration of self-possession, this piece rejects respectability politics, false mentorship, and the pressure to become smaller for other people’s comfort.

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The Tower Of Us

A tarot-structured essay about love, manipulation, and the reckoning that comes when you finally read the spread clearly.

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Hey Nurse!

A narrative poem about burnout, devotion, institutional exhaustion, and the strange afterlife of being needed by everyone except yourself.

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Chart Me Correctly This Time

A poem of institutional fury and hard-earned authority, confronting the polished language of the “industry” with the lived knowledge it too often tries to overwrite.

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“The Palms STill Stand. Crisp Silhouettes against a Hazy Sky, tall as guilt and just as thin. They line the driveway in symmetrical grief, as if trying to offer shade to something that can’t be cooled. Everything here is sun-bleached and wind-chapped, held together by spider webs and memory. The breeze tastes like eucalyptus and the air smells like dust that used to be skin.”

Noncompliant: A Sunglassed Elegy From Camarillo