Out of Order
It is 1945, and 1961, and 1968, and 2024, and 2045, and today, and tomorrow, and forever.
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My people grant names based on where we are sent, so here I am upon Earth, the magnificent paradise -- Terra Augustus Utopia!
Latest posts
To my pa'ti
A letter in Fae, transcribed and annotated.
Decolonizing English
To writers, it is a question of mechanisms.
To the tree by where I parked
I wonder what it feels like when you shed your fruit.
How a Sun Forgives
Chalchiuhtlicue, how do you forgive us?
The First New Cycle
Regarding the Witch Clock's second edition.
Sacrifice
It only works when it's something important to you.
How old do I look?
Skincare can only explain so much.
Home
I want to take you where I'm from, but it doesn't exist yet.
Seven is a fine number of poems
Another short collection, and a digression about community.
Tricksters
A poem about reality.
Pavement Posies
When we praise the posies that pierce the pavement...
The Witness
Or, "Who looks through what eyes?"
I did not eat my twin
Regarding my least favorite term for vanishing twin syndrome.
Nails in my Trunk
I'm not one of the good ones.
Survey
Questions toward a more loving tomorrow.
Regarding the end of the mandatory flu vaccine
...in the US Joint Forces.
The Spirit and the Animal
Poems read at Annie Bloom's Books
A Strange Welcome
Collection of poems from a local performance.
Dream of Pointing the Finger Back
I have a recurring dream set in the decolonized Americas...
The Fate of Monsters
Do you want to go extinct? Do you want to watch it happen?
Foie Gras
Among my pantheon, there is a joke consisting of only two words.
O, to Return!
Let us begin, again.
To Scream Apart the Sky
If I gave you the words...
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A horror magazine's editor receives a strange submission.
The Ratworm
Do you want to know how magic really works?
In Case I Die
A horror story about labor, humanity, and AI.
Furthermore: Seven Poems
No one has successfully prevented me from adding linebreaks to prose.
Why do you not love each other?
Can you overcome the covenant of profit and privation?
TEETH
A *Terra Augustus Utopia* Performance
I'm Not From Here
That doesn't make me special, or a main character, or anything like that. It makes me weird, and normal people make that suck.
A Human
It saved us, in a strange way. But then it had us, forever.
Seven More Poems
From Summer 2025
Seven Poems
From Summer 2025
The Experience of Divinity
A bestiary of the eternal
The Experience of Schizophrenia
An effort at demystification
The Faithful
In my dreams, I am the sky answering.
They Let Me Live
A utopian revenge story.
Making a Calendar: Witch Clock
An adventure in timekeeping and JavaScript.
Broken
What do we really have left? What can we do with it?
"We won."
How to destroy a people.
Governments That Don't Exist
Pageantries and futures.
Eggs
Maybe if they'd been cheaper...
The Killer is in the House
He has nowhere to run. A decolonial meditation.
Reaching For Never-Was
Only through faith in better can it be realized.
Why I Love PouchDB
And why it isn't good enough.
Spirits of the Human Animal
A longer essay concerning systemic influences.
Summer Retrospective 2023
Regarding colonialism, revolt, and software.
Parables Regarding Software
Lessons learned through toil.
Revolution and the World of the Heart
I was scared too, but I need you to understand: we won.