Ascension

I’ve met myself among the moon and the stars, perhaps catapulted here by one of those stick and rubber band slingshots younger me used to make.

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A Year in Rope

At the beginning of 2022, I was in a bad way. It became impossible to avoid certain truths as my body refused to be numb any longer. Suddenly, I was drowning in emotions—grief, shame, remorse, plus my usual dose of melancholy.

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Velocity

There’s nothing keeping
me here anymore;
maybe I should go

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Idea

I have this idea that I can paint on my body with rope, lay out a path to freedom—the on-my-body-railroad.

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Chest Harness

The more you do, the more it becomes easier to do. It’s only been a week since I started this series and already I’ve been picking up my rope a lot more.

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Self-Tie Tuesday

What are the costs and benefits of your coping mechanism? What do you gain and what are you missing out on by getting lost in this thing, self-soothing with it? What do you minimize to stretch into this pleasure?

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Familiarity or Fantasy, 2

It’s been about six weeks since I quit my job and I don’t regret it, however, living out my fantasy is a bit different to what I expected.

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Pemdas

The thing about emotions is when you’re in the depths of one is when you’re most capable of experiencing others.

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Look Up

Tonight, as I walked my dog
I stood for a moment and took
a puff of my vape
then tilted my head back
to see the smoke rise

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2022 Survival Guide

There is work to be done.

That’s the motto, the mantra, the resolution. This year, I know I’ll swing from states of manic euphoria to deep dreamlike depression.

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