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Spirochete Vaudeville (Fever Dream Remix)

A tick leaves behind something far larger than its bite: a body gone strange, hostile, and impossible to trust. The poem descends into the grotesque aftermath of Lyme disease, where pain flickers room to room and the body becomes a haunted place still trying to name what entered it.

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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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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