Works | Enchanted Material

Major Works

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Majestic Dark

A 1,200-line narrative poem in heptameter exploring consciousness, mortality, and the persistence of meaning through the physics of spacetime.

"Meaning is ascribed to that which many dream to know. Seeming is believing, and our deep desires bestow a longing and a yearning for the past to reach the now, and faring-well we find the future's threads and disavow all fear that stems from losing that which fears-not losing us, though nothing will be lost within our old place blessed with rust, for time and space will carry tide and story on dark pages, and they shall keep existence, though the chaos 'round us rages."

The Bower

A narrative poem of emergence and transformation.

"Propelled by all the river's scorn I was expelled through ice and snow into the sunlit world above."

Featured Poems

Lifespring

Formal verse exploring pagan mythology and the renewal of spring

In the Siebbeleshof Courtyard

Witness poetry observing autumn twilight in Europe

Micro-Poems

Pie

Inhibition

The Veil

Jig

The Hill

Additional Work

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I Still Bless This Land of Fools and Heroes

In Progress

A collection of political poetry employing strategic ambiguity and landscape metaphors to explore contemporary social dynamics.

American at the Souq Waqif

"...we broker peace one kindness for another where mortals meet eternal sand and stars and time, far older than our differences."

Uneven Streets

"In the shadows I followed, and he curled-in his shoulders. His cold hands were freed now from grasping direction. Finding pockets, he tripped along the uneven streets. They were empty, but for him and the pimps hawking 'bitches' and naming a price."

Token

"His tender touch renders more loot than a thousand pirates' grandest schemes; the warm sun glints from a magpie's eye like gold. This dirt bears the tread of my soles—"

Binary

"I am utility; they are obsolescence. I serve commodity; they serve what? Humanity?! I will work all the flesh off fingers; I am the commodity…"