My Eve.

you wound me
A lotus dress with lace
of red.

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (after the sculpture in France).

psyche-reaped and kissed
into a lushed womb where
coiling into my lap, she lay

In search of a beta reader.

I’m currently in search of a beta reader or two to help give feedback on my WIP, maybe even hash out ideas.

Chapter Five of The Obsession.

In the present moment, she awaited the inevitable. She strayed from Oktavia even more so—to the point the human noticed her odd looks and disappointment; their hands had bumped into each other when trying to reach for the artificial sweetener jar—and Mischa flinched like a fish waiting to be gutted by their captor.

In retrospect, however–

Chapter Four of The Obsession.

“…I am not even flattering you, she probably just glanced at you and decided what she would feel, like clockwork,” he snapped his fingers. “You need to end this.”

“And how do you expect me to do that?” Mischa didn’t dare break away eye contact. Respect was the only thing she had left, if it wasn’t love.

“You do it carefully, Koch. Very carefully.”

Melpomene (Draft).

her lune,
how precise and anticlastic
as if each horror you provoked
could somehow make me want you

Tom and Lauren vs Zara vs Zargaff (Soundtrack).

I created a soundtrack for the most brutal scene yet in the ongoing Identify novel collaboration.

Life on Lockdown (Satire).

Note: I think I wrote this around a year ago. It was a nice diversion from the tension of those early times, while still delving into it. This is a satirical piece, so just a forewarning since the pandemic impacts us all in different ways. I don’t take it lightly either as I have had distant family pass from it; back on point, I know this can be a sensitive topic so proceed with caution.

glass eyes (Draft).

Glassy eyes
in sumac touches
she waits for me or doesn’t

Novel Collaboration (Identify): Chapter 14.

His voice croaked. “If there is no escape, then there is no length of survival.”

“Then Artemis was right. We have to murder this whole regime.”

unhappiness.

I sit at her bedroom window
an age where branches hung themselves Antigone.

Artemis and Lauren.

Hope this soundtrack could depict a bit of weirdness, a bit of surrealism, and a bit of fear in the midst of it all too–I pretty much am looking at it through Lauren’s perspective, how everything is fading in seconds before she believes it is her time.

“Beguiling Sirens” by Tom Alexander.

Let them ruin you a while
let them wreck you for a spell

Identify Podcast Theme.

I have recently composed an intro soundtrack to the Identify podcast project I’ve been working on. For those that do not know, Identify is an ongoing novel collaboration project that delves into a mysterious island that has different uses for people.