Archive - below deck

Walking, running, writing

It’s spring. It’s not spring. It’s nearly spring. A time of errant beginnings.

Mar 18 •

December 2023

Ten Skies for 2023

Possibility in a loose chronology

Dec 30, 2023 •

September 2023

Endings are beginnings are endings are beginnings

Sep 12, 2023 •

April 2023

My first short story

Apr 13, 2023 •

March 2023

Poetry is not the world

A poem for World Poetry Day

Mar 21, 2023 •

Four Days, Three Nights, and a Disordering of the sense

Mar 7, 2023 •

December 2022

2022: A Better Year

I drank a lot of coffee, did a lot of swimming, read some things and talked about the excess of feelings with those I love and who love to love

Dec 29, 2022 •

November 2022

Ten Tips for Writing Around a Day Job

How to commit to writing while also letting go.

Nov 29, 2022 •

"C'mere" — a tribute to Bernadette Mayer

The poet Bernadette Mayer is dead. I am going through a break up. I go to airdrop this photo of the Mayer poem to my laptop and the first suggestion is…

Nov 23, 2022 •

The Head of the Hole with a Halo

Nov 8, 2022 •

October 2022

A Moment's Breath

On ill health, crisis, Eastenders, sea urchin spines and those little moments where everything feels okay.

Oct 31, 2022 •

The sky is dappled with small breaks of sun. The streets smell of piss.

On trying to write in Marseille

Oct 24, 2022 •

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