Family Dynamics
Writing that explores the complexities of family dynamics—childhood memories, generational patterns, small domestic moments, and the quiet tensions and tenderness that shape who we become. Poems and essays rooted in the emotional terrain of family life.
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Blurring the house – a poem
It’s August captures a young father mowing the lawn, children tangled in summer flowers, and a hidden figure smoking in the house. This poem reveals the quiet complexity of early family life and…
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Sins of the Fathers – a poem
A haunting winter train ride leaving Kraków becomes a surreal meditation on inheritance, identity, and the strange tenderness of memory—where a grandfather’s stolen silver beard becomes a child made of breath and snow.
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home sweet home -digital collage
Blue house-forms drift across water beneath a washed sky. Home Sweet Home reflects on instability, waiting, and the uneasy promise of shelter.
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Coming to America – a poem
Gravity-gravity brought my great-grandfatherto this country. It was my great-grandmother’swill, she who wrestled the moon changing tides, disturbing orbits.She brought him to America, and yet he never left GermanyAnd became a suit in…
