Personal Poetry

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These poems come from the margins of my own pages — fragments, questions, and quiet reckonings that don’t quite fit anywhere else.

Some are recent. Others have been with me for years. I share them here not as finished statements, but as offerings — raw, reflective, and sometimes uncertain.

They’re part of the same work this site is built on: the practice of paying attention, turning things over, and sitting with what doesn’t resolve.

  • What Survives the Fire?

    The sky cracked opennot with thunderbut with silence.Ash fell like memoryon shuttered schools,fenced gardens,empty roads where oncechildren danced in chalk outlinesand elders watered the earth. They said the world endedin a bang or a flood.But it ended in pieces—in choices, in cuts,in laws that looked the other way. What is faithwhen the churches burn?What is…