This is a page to hold “poems” I’ve written over the years*, organised in a way that makes sense to me.
* I use "" because I feel a bit cringe(ier than usual) introducing these collections of words as “poems” even though they would probably be classified as that.
I just want to acknowledge that while some of these I’m mostly happy with (or happy with some aspect of), they each exist on some spectrum of embarrassment (to present me, which probably will also map onto future me), and some of them are… yikes 😳
But, as ever, the purpose of exposing these embarrassments is a form of self-exposure therapy, which I find a generally useful thing to do - for myself (e.g. toughening up), and others (encouraging others to similarly self-expose). So plz have mercy when/if reading, and know I’m not trying to position myself as a competent linguistic artist with a magnificent portfolio of poems; I’m just an amateur trying to express stuff in different ways.
2019
My Mind
I think 16 y/o me was in a bit of a mental mess when writing this - perhaps an adolescent’s rite of passage? Anyway, I find the repetition of “My Mind” cringe, along with the name, but I’m preserving it as I wrote it ~7 years ago from the writing of this sentence.
2022
2023-24
- Butterfly? Nope, air = everything
- Quarks and Quacks and Everything Else
- maps and blueprints: all the same
Stuff from during psychosis recovery (2024): Assorted “recovering psychotic” attempted poems