Category: Stack

Collection of things I’ve been writing, with a focus on personal essays, editorial writing, experiments in fiction, and book/album reviews.

  • Nonburning envelope

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    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

  • 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

  • Ratcket

    I built a rocket. The ratcket launched October 29th 2023 in the middle of a bean farm near Culpeper Virginia. It does feel kind of embarrassing to have stuff that you never really let go of from childhood, but I was a space kid and it lingers. The first book I remember my dad reading Read more

  • Stack Select

    This will be a running catalog of albums that have been really important or impactful for me, god I love these albums. I didn’t used to be the kind of person to ever listen through a whole record, and some good friends of mine talked me out of that. Thanks, friends. Here’s a playlist with Read more