Three syllabic poems exploring emotions that have no common name, inspired by John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
Three Emotions Under the Microscope
Satisfaction Survey
A routine satisfaction survey spirals into an existential dialogue.
Multiple Choice Questions Written as the National Emergency Alert [Repeats] Everyone Must Comply by Staying in Their Homes, or a Place of Safety, and Not Going Out Except for Extreme Necessity Until the Danger Has Passed | While the Birds on My Balcony Continue to Coo to One Another, Swiftly Eating the Seed I Have Laid Out for Them, Two of Them Entering My Open Doorway to Peck at Stray Seed That Has Fallen on the Sill | As I Sit, Listening for the Distant Sound of Drones and Interceptor Missiles ~ Measuring Causality the Way One Measures Thunder After a Flash of Lightning
Writing began on February 28, 2026.
Staying
Reflection on missile alerts, daily uncertainty, and pressure to leave.
Adventskalender Abecedarian from العربية
Last submission for my writers group, an experiment with an advent calendar as a writing genre.
Hiking Seven Rila Lakes with My Youngest
A meditation on endurance and the quiet reckoning of age, set against the mist and chill of Bulgaria’s highlands.
Crickets & Popcorn
A short writing inspired by the summer.
Personal Statement in Rhymed Stanzas
My CV personal statement transformed into rhyming couplets as a writer’s group experiment.
Report and Snapshots from the Language Village of Mahdia
A short report and snapshots from the two weeks I spent as a U.S. English Language Specialist at the Language Village of Mahdia.
In Your Own Air: A Travelogue from Eid
This post serves as the dedication, epigraph, and table of contents for my travelogue poetry sequence, In Your Own Air. Written during a journey through Romania over the Eid break.
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