“An S/A/B/C/D/F Tier-Based Ranking of Theories, Principles, and ‘Laws’ Explaining Human Behavior, Decision-Making, Interpersonal Relationships, and Lived Experience: A Subjective Arrangement of Perceived Explanatory Utility”

A poem that ranks the theories, principles, and “laws” used to explain why people think, behave, and connect. Part taxonomy, part reflection.

The Daughter of Coalescence

An experimental embedded poem borrowing from Emmanuel Umeji’s “Bifurcation.”

Expat Advice before the Red Setting Sun

A meditation about the nature of expat life in Doha.

Reading Whitman on the Eve of a Fragile Ceasefire

A Whitmanesque meditation on crisis from a life made in the Gulf.

Three Emotions Under the Microscope 

Three syllabic poems exploring emotions that have no common name, inspired by John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.