Last year, late in March (after the pandemic sent me home from the office, a place I have yet to return to but once), I set myself a goal. To release a poem each and every day for an entire year. …

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/barrow-of-our-promise This poem was, being honest, ‘inspired’ by the events around the leaked document from the US Supreme Court around rolling back Roe vs Wade. Barrow of Our Promise We started to build the barrow Atop Abel’s freshly murdered corpse Seeking to trap ourselves in place Where knowledge’s fruit would have…

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/firefly-ritual This week I had two things on my mind, and ended up putting them together because that’s how my brain works. …

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/memory-aisle I honestly don’t remember why, but back on April 4th (I know because Keep shows when I last edited the note) I saw this metaphor crawling around inside me about the grocery store as a pathway to the past. …

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/paper-confessions This poem caught me completely off guard. I was reading more of Dufresne’s A Lie That Tells a Truth and he made an almost offhanded comment that sort of set me reeling. Specifically talking about writing as a sacrament. The aftermath of it is what you will…

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/doodles I doubt I talk much about this week’s poem. I wrote it, it exists. But I did a lot of thinking about writing since my poem two weeks ago, and since I posted my review of Max Gladstone’s latest book, so I’ll talk about that a bit…

This is going to be a weird thing. First, I am not sure if I will do book reviews with any regularity here on Medium, but secondarily after I do the initial review I’m going to talk about my reflections on my own writing. I will clearly demarcate the end…

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/plateau This poem came about reflecting on life, but through the lens of the book I read this past week, Last Exit by Max Gladstone. …

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/wizardofwestmarch/unwanted-borders I tried to write this poem last week, but world events, the same things that inspired it, also lead to being unready to finalize it let alone put it out into the world. In a very strange confluence, reading a book about writing in relationship to maps…