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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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Bruised Water

A deep-sea bloom is torn open by the first thing powerful enough to reach its depth. What remains is a poem of bloodied water, black coral, and the brutal afterlife of misrecognition.

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Circling

She disappears into dark water, and desire follows close behind. Set in moonlight and undertow, this poem drifts into the charged space where surrender starts to feel like instinct.

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Kelp Fever

A lush, unsettling meditation on desire and transformation, where beauty is altered by contact and rendered into something stranger, more physical, and impossible to name.

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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