Hey folks. Welcome! I’m a novice poet who created this site just to have a place with permanent links to my writing that I could share. I don’t claim this stuff is any good. I’m learning, and sharing the fruits of my learning, is all. Hope you find something here that you like.
You can browse via the categories or tags to the left. (If you appreciate being made a bit uncomfortable, try the tag askew.) Or, here are a few suggestions:
About people, values, and choices:
- release, the poem that supplied this website’s name
- geek chic, an ode to nerdwear
- Bottom’s Death, a dignity
- The Stuff I’m Made Of, a dissection
- essentialism, a diatribe
- seen, a disappearing act
- enough, a grace
- The Prize, a victory
- Imago Dei, a declaration
- Men’s Rights, a mansplanation
About relationships and community:
- adventure time, a lark
- Some Notes, a melody
- maniac wind, a record of trauma
- Common Terzanelle, an intricate form of community
- It Is Well, a pledge
- tragedy, a falling apart
- ode to the table – day one, a memory
- love ’em or leave ’em, a teaching
- i’m sorry, a tentative apology
- prone, an exposure
About childhood, learning, and growing up:
- Colosseum, a story from my childhood
- Someplace Else, a reminiscence
- wickedness, a biographical sketch
- in the valley of innocence, a retrospective
- at the mount of autonomy, a prequel to a retrospective
- memoir, an autobiography
- learning to play the banjo, a self-evaluation
- channel of sorrows, a release
- conjuring, an enchantment
- disney dream vocation, an irrestistable attraction
About climbing the mountain:
- Captivity, a dialogue with Psalm 137
- meditation instructions, a manual
- perfect, a rant
- driving, a lucid dream
- Entering the Stream, a beginning
- concrete and iron, a self-interrogation
- bird brain, a reflection
- body, an incredulity
- apprentice, an education
- Big Love, a declaration
About glimpsing the summit:
- in presence of eternity, an encounter
- behind the waterfall, a delight
- these dreams, a rapture
- Gratitude, an exaltation
- Disobedience, a midrash
- Prayer of the Trinity, an internal trialogue
- Lord of Miracles, a question of mercy
- Salvation, an opening
- i am, a realization
- green, an abundance
About animals:
- body & soul, an affectionate ode
- Curiosity killed Moriarty, an equivocal lamentation
- The Ballad of Bad Luck Joe (or) A Whale With Much to Bewail
- The Lofty Wishes of Lofty Fishes, a tale of hubris
- actuality, an epiphany
- The Best Laid Plans, a comeuppance
- three haiku, a contrast
- A Tragic Tail, a keening
- little clam, a tragedy
- lil snek, a squiggle
About wierd sh*t:
- Emergent Phenomena, a surprising account
- empty, a horror tale
- Why We Roam, an explanation
- At the Bridge, a macabre invitation
- 10 Things Not to Say in a Job Interview, some good advice
- burn, an armageddon
- Underneath, a descent
- Just Desserts, a conclusion
- uncertainty principle, a scientific inquiry
- The Vampires of Kodak Park, a desolation
Enjoy…or something.
Peace,
Mike
