the phoenix dances – reflections on the state of humanity and my life in 2019

What a time to be alive.

life, chapter 23 – an update

In which our protagonist, Mr. Austin Campbell, makes an obvious revelation and laments the existence of linear time.

Instapoem – “the emigration”

“… my heart is full of the changing colours of our souls like the water transforms deep to shallow, light to dark to light again… until the cool silence arrives…”

Instapoem – “love free or die hard”

“… i saw without rose lenses, took the glasses off slowly cause it was too bright, and you weren’t there but, i felt you…”

Instapoem – “starstruck”

“…miracles wear phantom pullovers to catch the eye…”

letting go – a life update

“Seven years ago, I made the choice to commit myself to sharing my life with another person and through every up and every down stayed committed to what I assumed would be ‘it’.

tl;dr >>> it wasn’t ‘it’.”

vulcan mind meld

we create a complex web of human beings
being human

the house of black and white: love, progress, and phantoms in the closet

… two people in love reach across the supposed ‘lines’ drawn between races, raising questions about the futility of borders…

Hi, Hello, See Ya!

good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight… wait is that copyrighted?

Instapoem – “sublime”

sublime like telling you it’s over without uttering a single word * like bubbling lava rising to the surface of a precipice, our tears consume this Pompeii * we fought facing the reality of what we aren’t, while embracing at last a touch centuries denied * my mind traces our souls and witnesses this decline […]