Books
“haze of pinkish night,
Melancholic and Philo unite
I found love in your moon eyes,
simulating the sea pull in silver crescendo”
— Trilogy excerpt, from Interrelation and Other Works
“It was said that the roses blooming in Blackthorn’s shadow had roots that reached deep into the graves of forgotten scholars. Their blood-red petals were said to shimmer with drops of dew even on the driest days, their fragrance carrying the faintest whisper of poetry lost to time.”
— Nightfall Poets Society of Blackthorn Academy excerpt, from Nightfall Poets Society of Blackthorn Academy
“this shameful capitulation
succumbing to consumer desire
fragrant luxuries encompass dreams of the masses
where they lay weak in dirty houses beneath the hillside”
— Philo excerpt, from Philo and Other Poems
“Kneeling beside the mattress,
the rise oof light at daybreak brings dark gloom
and knows only anxious nausea”
— Nausea excerpt, from Melancholic and Other Poems