Archive - Ars Poetica

but the plot calls for me to live, be ordinary.

it always begins, as these things often do, with the light.

May 12 •

April 2025

March 2025

live to the point of tears.

why you must change your life.

Mar 2 •

February 2025

January 2025

i'll miss this.

while they were brewing the hemlock for his execution, Socrates began to learn to play a new song on his flute.

Jan 30 •

December 2024

keep no safe distance.

considering love, it is only natural that the mind wanders to the dreams of birds.

Dec 31, 2024 •

November 2024

literature will lose. sunlight will win.

Nov 26, 2024 •

September 2024

my tears live in a lake i never touch.

...and for the last 268 days, i have thoroughly documented each encounter with them.

Sep 25, 2024 •

August 2024

so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow.

if i can tell you one thing, it is this: your story will begin with a knucklebone.

Aug 14, 2024 •

May 2024

what do we do when we are dying?

because you too are not so unlike these trees. it would be easy to say that this is because you are alive— but no, it is because you are also dying.

May 9, 2024 •

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