Category: Stack
Collection of things I’ve been writing, with a focus on personal essays, editorial writing, experiments in fiction, and book/album reviews.
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Valentine’s Day
Self portrait marionette among kitschy decorations about time, black patina on this can of cheerwine The last man on earth after waking from a coma can only keep time via an old digital camera with time stamps, 1 GB memory, and you must take a photo to see the stamp. He doesn’t want to delete… Read more
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The old man and the sea
Key West, FL January 19 2025 Notes I went to the Hemingway House to read The Old Man and the Sea and to write. The 6-toed cats are meaner than the 5-toed ones, I imagine they’re in pain or they’re exhausted from being gawked at and chased around all day. I frequently think about Katy… Read more
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Zine
This zine was distributed at our first ever live show at Greenhouse Gallery on 10/13/2024. Printable: Read more
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three by five
Simulacra Placing favorite poems into my lap, Fingers’ printings of paintings in mother’s arms. I’m making an offer, care for understanding I just never had for the real thing, Speaking to you in your native tongue. Mag fi sticks Your attic weighs in your first departure, Strings tied to one ankle for a salvageable trip.… Read more
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EP Lyrics
Reach Stumbling undressedBlackout drapesWould I be eclectic enoughIf i finished my stays Scratching at the back doorA strayCameo in my dreamYou nearly said you loved me the other day Just out of reach Crumpled ballerinaface shrouded in envytrying not to see you with my eyes shut Being crushedThough you’ll never knowYour rejection may crucify me… Read more
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July 4th
A beautiful day and a long drive to panther falls. I wanted to do some swimming and roast marshmallows and I’ve been too precious about preserving memory. I’m more fearful of black bears from my bedroom than alone in the woods after dark. a man a little younger than my father approached me at a… Read more
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Cisterne
This is the Taryn Simon installation at Cisterne in Copenhagen, Denmark. Start again | The Lament is an immersive installment in a preserved 19th century cistern under Søndermarken. The piece is comprised of walkways over the still water of the reservoir leading you through a soundscape of mourning coming from all directions, with only a… Read more
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False Dostoevsky – NLP
This is a project I worked on for my natural language processing class. I took a few of fyodor dostoevsky’s works in the public domain from the gutenberg project and processed them using N-Grams as an approach to sentence generation. The idea was to probabilistically replicate his prose style, creating sentences that sound like dostoevsky,… Read more
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Nonburning envelope
You have a stone shaped like a star;There is only one poking through cloud cover.Tracing a circle around four city blocks,Singing anytime under my breath toward the center, Reading a perforated letter I wrote you,Thought you might like to know, and that I might love to tell you –The center is holding the air that… Read more
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Nature Writing
It is fifty degrees, and the windchill makes it harsher to wear the same clothes over and over. I am listening to Possibly Maybe, it played last night too. Sometimes, sometimes. The community garden is untended, everything’s browned in the oven since summer. Old dried-out corn husks are strewn across the mulch. I consider… Read more