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Internet Archive: Carnival Rations and Other Poems

Internet Archive: In The Winds Of The August Maladroit Parvenu

Internet Archive: Book 5 – Poems Postponed

Internet Archive: The Sounds Of Dreams And Your Senseless Soft Touch

Internet Archive: The Elephant Snow

Internet Archive: Essays and Memos on My Fundamental Misunderstanding of Ontology

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Internet Archive: A Gathering Of Works, Vol. I

Internet Archive: A Few Notes on Star Trek

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Towards Post-Violence Societies: An Outline of Interdisciplinary Violence Studies and Violence Research

Some previous top popular poems

Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Parts I-III

crescents like a waking diamond’s remorseful resilience

Clarification of a Poem

treasures that buckle

A Return to Attraction to Light and the End of the Public Intellectual

Or the orchids of the day

Without Capitalism Rain Robinson Would Still Be An Astronomer

The polyester eater

The test we are under, the remnants of the subconscious signature, and self-defense

not the chariot, or the escaping fire of our port

Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World

The futility of hope vs. fir cone crabgrass nearshoring

Poems read in China, Nov. 2025

Trauma and Postmodern Subtext in Star Trek

the congruent mercies of gravel ponds

But the burdened air paperwork maderisation

Arguments like parched persistence

A constellation of the retired house you’re in

Stellate Osprey Winds Between Hidden Requisition Tags

The fog does not witness us

A Poem Recited by God as Best as I Could Understand Her

The Impasse Up North

Reposting: Theory of Monetized Empathy

When God Cries Tears of Grass

Faulted King

Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism

a triumvirate eight days from alaylesse flint matches, Dallas scorned

Stones in still images of Bristol mines

misleading, concealed frostbite and branches of bitter smoke

If History Itself is God

Common Turn Honeycreeper

Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” Parts I-III

A Pale Bordering Wail

Bird Constructions

takersmiths and bounty ignoring adults

A treatise of fabled birds ground hugging the highway overpass

eyot channels dancing on cigars and salads

Border Rushes on Stall-wick Proposals

Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today

Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts

Theology at redivivus.earth

Counted in the extreme thought of bi-rated reprisal and condemned in its mercy

Skipping the Plumb Bow

Where professors are hidden in a trajectory of might and appendages of zeal

tomorrow E’rth’s patience for pearl-like songs

When the soil entraps us with brooks and pyres

I’m so happy you’re here

A compass to England in wasted plaster weddings

Cut the parachute off the moon

Dormouse Tungsten Turnstile on the Albaricoque Treelimb Standard

Shadows of a relapsed dawn in the accordion pulpit

Between the páramo and cold Georgia nights

obcordate tuned sovereign

When She Leaves April Without a Care

Alterpiece Coins in Loving Doubt and Regret

Angry With The Waters (long, epic poem)

Hysteria in the Late Nineteenth-Century

An Obligor Whispers

Gaius Baltar Escaping Freedom on Tau Cygna V

Those sundry amber lakes

Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

The Accrued Mornings

White Cornelian Cherry

The last leaves of April

The First Steps to Reaching a SciFi-Like Utopia From Where the Western World is Right Now

Solarpunk and the Vestiges of the Ascetic

New Lies of Patrimony Gloves

We shy away from our wings

Patronage Winds

Narrative Obtrusion and Difference in the Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” and Enterprise’s “Damage”

Pluripotent Abstractions On a Cliff Down the River from a Rented Gold Mine

Expressions of African American Feminisms in Jazz

Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Between Moons Where God Does Find Me

When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice  (Notes and rough drafts)

The United Traits of Bajoran and Cardassian Resistance

SciFi.earth

Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait

When the Sky is Beautiful Again, Always

Trust in pisé recalcitrant bedourie

Lucie Horsch Sits Too Silent Among the Maple Pears

The Conflict and Promises of Revisiting the Past and Seeing into the Future

Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution

On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism

Cylon Number Six as Savior of the Twelve Colonies

Spaeman of Silicone Mattresshouses

Haley Heynderickx

A Vision of Sands

Anti-Utopian Leadership

Capitalism and Violence-Customs

Burden of Action

Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning” – Dr. Federico Savini

Guillemot Villages

Levinas and the Other

Identity and Captain Louanne “Kat” Katraine

Reception for an occasional prohibitive competitor

sosenuto conversion

Prince of Memphis

Collective Ethical Patience

Grey Matter

The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”

The Orville’s “Mad Idolatry” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “Sacred Ground” as a Lesson in Explanatory Ethics

Stolen for the Afternoon

Without Homes and Dressings

Criminal Apples Listening to Songs From The Capeman

Extreme Risk” and “Invasive Procedures” as Symbols of Capitalist Internalization

In the County Villages of 1960s Seismology

Václav Havel’s Spirit Visited Me

Inciting God

Esurient Farandoule

Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)

Knock Out Roses for China

Eddington is Right When He States that Utopia Requires Assimilation

Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations

Volunteers of East Redbrook

Avery Brooks and His Understanding of Sisko

Depersonalization and Violence in The Next Generation episode, “Violations,” and the Voyager episode, “Remember”

Receptacles for Creation

Erasure of Solitary Meals and Gas Pipes

The Falsehood of Author as Authority

state house fairground

A Note on Open Access

The Contempt of Loneliness

The Ontology of a Hummingbird

Star Trek Enterprise’s “Dear Doctor” and Voyager’s “Nothing Human”

Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve

Star Trek, Ecology, and Green SciFi

A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations

From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism

A Tariff on Trust

Soul in Orbital Decay

Mastic Resin on Closed Nights

When the Kids Have Stopped Working

Diastole Consumption on Rockmary Leaves

Kindness Literacy

“Spock’s Brain” and the Perpetuation of Sexist Control

Transcendence is a mutual harmony

The nimble atmosphere

Note: Idealism in an Era of Consequences

The Faint of the Few

Stationed undergrounder miners withdraw

Stalling in the Desert

milkweed without marble (the first violin)

I woke about 10 pm. God is here. We talked about poetry.

Cooperation

Trains Different from Digestive Tracts

She sees no rendition of the former past midnight for incoming Rome

This is not a good time to start writing a new book

Lesia Kulchynska: The Lure of War video essay

Monetized Empathy and the Conditioning of Violence-Capitalism

Denominationalisms

The Allium Rancor of Culprit Tuesdays in Multiverse Time

A Conversation With a Musician and a Forest

A chronology of mercurial tides

Untitled #57: father of dry oil

Star Trek is a Collaborator with Contemporary Injustice

The theft of broken windows

Internet Archive: Essays and Memos on My Fundamental Misunderstanding of Ontology

Most read poems of 2025

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