here you will find words, arranged and rearranged to form some approximation of what i feel or think. everything here has some connection with real life, but not everything is a complete reproduction of my reality. so read and enjoy, criticise or despise, whatever takes your fancy, just please don't judge my life by the words that have come out of it so far." 'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.' " - Sir Philip Sidney
| - haiku - | - other poems - | - essays - | - other writings - |
serious haiku - actual attempts to make something of the form
silly haiku - such a serious poetry form needs a bit of silliness injected now and then
honorary haiku - they're not really haiku but they're short
when utopia falls
aftermath
1:57 a.m. thursday
the penguins' lament
children of war
escape to fantasy
the undertaker
ennui in the garden of eden
journeys on the road less travelled
sometimesiwanttobe
seventeen
modern life (service with a sigh)
an everyday war
a pilgrim of a different hue
the darkness waits
this poem will...
valentine's 2001
bad nostalgia trip
schoolyard revolutionary alone in the afternoon
Born Free - an essay written for my ditzy english teacher in 1999. a hopelessly pretentious topic which inspired a hopelessly pretentious essay, but it gets a guernsey here because it got an a+, probably by completely mystifying said teacher.
Cecil Saves the World - impossible as it may seem, the douglas adams influence on this essay completely escaped me as i was writing it. talk about subconscious obsession. i think there are one or two hitchhiker phrases in there, completely verbatim, completely by accident.
Homecoming Analysis - another hopelessly pretentious essay, but it's about a good poem.
on drugs and despair - a poet's perspective
the superwhelk story