A meditation about the nature of expat life in Doha.
Expat Advice before the Red Setting Sun
Category: Writings
Reading Whitman on the Eve of a Fragile Ceasefire
A Whitmanesque meditation on crisis from a life made in the Gulf.
Another Night (Reversed)
A poem about a night out, inspired by the Sator Square.
Three Emotions Under the Microscope
Three syllabic poems exploring emotions that have no common name, inspired by John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
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.
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.
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