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Better Lyme Than You (Fever Dream Remix)

In the delirium of pain, a speaker discovers that there is something almost luxurious about suffering that does not lie. Bitter, surreal, and acid-tongued, the poem drifts through fever, betrayal, and the humiliating relief of a wound with no hidden agenda.

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Better Lyme Than You

When the body becomes easier to understand than the heart, even infection can start to feel merciful. This poem uses Lyme disease as a darkly comic point of contrast, exposing the absurdity of preferring physical illness to the chaos of intimate harm.

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Gemini Stellium: Trinity of Chaos

A sparkling, high-velocity astrological lyric essay that uses a Gemini stellium to explore intellect as seduction, language as identity, and the endless reinvention of the self through curiosity and connection.

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Sag Rising: Feral Gait

A feral, glitter-toothed astrological lyric essay that uses Sagittarius Rising as a lens for instinct, motion, self-mythology, and the art of never standing still.

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Dymphna, Please

A darkly funny confessional poem in which Saint Dymphna becomes the exhausted witness to spirals, exes, hyperfixations, and the very modern theater of unraveling.

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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