Poetry
Original poems and reflections on the poets who shape a life — from Auden and Larkin to Louise Glück.
Featured Poems
A small selection of original work and meditations on verse.
Petrushka
A poem exploring motion, performance, and the fragile boundary between puppet and self.
The Waking
Written in conversation with Theodore Roethke's celebrated villanelle, this piece reckons with consciousness and the slow work of waking into age.
Shuffling Along the Final Footpath
A password-protected reflection on mortality and the narrowing path ahead. Published June 17, 2020.
It's too covefe by far
A wry, linguistically playful piece that bends language to capture a moment of absurdity.
Poets in the Margins
Writers whose lines echo through these pages.
Poetry Reading Challenge: 2017
A year spent immersed in verse — one collection after another, tracing the thread from Romanticism to the present.
Throughout 2017, this blog participated in the Poetry Reading Challenge, working through volumes by classic and contemporary poets alike. The challenge offered a structure for sustained attention: reading deeply rather than widely, returning to poems until they yielded their music.
Posts from that year reflect encounters with Keats's odes, Larkin's clipped melancholy, and Glück's unsparing clarity — each read through the lens of a reader growing older alongside the poems.