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 March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment Writing began on February 28, 2026.
Staying March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment Reflection on missile alerts, daily uncertainty, and pressure to leave.
Adventskalender Abecedarian from العربية December 25, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment Last submission for my writers group, an experiment with an advent calendar as a writing genre.
Hiking Seven Rila Lakes with My Youngest November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment A meditation on endurance and the quiet reckoning of age, set against the mist and chill of Bulgaria’s highlands.
Crickets & Popcorn September 16, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment A short writing inspired by the summer.
Personal Statement in Rhymed Stanzas August 27, 2025August 27, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment My CV personal statement transformed into rhyming couplets as a writer’s group experiment.
Report and Snapshots from the Language Village of Mahdia July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment 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 April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 Conan KmiecikLeave a comment 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.
∞ Truths and 1 Lie – Revealed by the Urim and Thummim While Waiting in the Romanian Airport Departures Terminal before Flight QR222 April 11, 2025 Conan Kmiecik1 Comment The final entry in the poetry sequence, In Your Air: A Travelogue from Eid
Musings on the Return Train – IRN 347 / Car 2 / Seat 68 / Sighișoara → București Nord April 11, 2025 Conan Kmiecik1 Comment Entry #8 in the poetry sequence, In Your Air: A Travelogue from Eid