Love: Its Joys and Discontents
Writing that explores the full spectrum of love—its joy, tenderness, desire, friction, rupture, and quiet aftershocks. Poems and essays that sit inside the complexity of connection, revealing how intimacy can heal, undo, and remake us.
- Announcements & Projects, Collage / Projects, Identity and the Body, Love: Its Joys and Discontents, Visual Art
Longing / Falling (Study in Suspension, Study in Absence) digital collage
An inverted figure hangs in a field of dark texture and dim light. The image considers suspension, exposure, and the uneasy calm between falling and flight.
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the interlude: a poem
This poem traces a brief, aching love—from physical closeness and longing to the aftermath, where memory turns into a footnote and names become just names.
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In The Beginning: a poem in IV parts
I.Suddenly a flash across the sky—a bang, a scentthe scent of rain.Then rainthenanother bangsetting off all the car alarms in my heart II.In the beginningyou came to me like a flash of lightningthat…
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Of Love and War – a poem
Of love and war unfolds across three movements where intimacy becomes shelter, resistance, and quiet defiance. Against the machinery and rumors of war, the lovers claim their own country of touch, tenderness, and…
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Hotel Cavalier – a poem
Inside the Hotel Cavalier, tenderness flickers amid the dark. In the glow of neon and the ache of solitude, love reveals itself—fragile, imperfect, and human.
