Becoming Beautiful Barbarians

poems from inside the unraveling

A morph of the Thrum literary organism
from the Wild Nature Heart field

Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment, carrying wild kin, deep-time trust, unraveling empires, and the dangerous act of remaining open-hearted in a burning world.

A chrysalis of poems
for those learning to stay permeable, imaginative,
and alive amid the strange unraveling.

We are the imaginal buds
of what is trying to emerge

no longer loyal to the caterpillar of us
but pledging allegiance
to the molt of becoming—

We dream the butterfly.
(from We Dream The Butterfly)

Inside:

volcanic Yeses, roadside sutras, composting empire,
dragon ethics, ancestral remembering,
and dreams of Butterfly Earth.

We are the Machine.
We are the Rust.

We are the Empire
and the Heart that Composts Empires.

We are trembling creatures
and Lovers learning to leap.

Forthcoming

Late Summer 2026

so thick is the hope in us
we sprout sunflowers from the soil
of rotting prisons
From Thick With Hope

Companion Morphs

Lend Your Tears Back the Watershed
Permeable
Composting the Spell of Empire: 40 Trickster Invitations
Earth Intimacies
Welcome to the Pollination Party: An Ecospiritual Decolonial Pilgrimage

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