Tag: poetry book

Time to Touch It

Modernity is the refusal to be in touch.—Bayo Akomolafe A small glimpse from Watershed, a collection of poems about grief, kinship, witness, and return. This poem, “Time to Touch It,” lives near the center of the book’s inquiry: what happens when grief can no longer remain… Continue Reading “Time to Touch It”

Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat

Field Observation: Beautiful Barbarian (Homo imaginalis/Homo metamorphicus/barbari pulchri) Habitat: thresholds, ecotones, collapsing empires, mountain ridges, places where certainty grows thin, and possibly swells like summer fruit Known behaviors: composting inherited stories, practicing permeability, building altars from ordinary debris, tending beauty amid collapse, occasionally jumping… Continue Reading “Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat”

All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed

The old house of empire is groaning at the beams. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection written from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment—carrying wild kin, unraveling empires, deep-time trust, and the dangerous act of remaining openhearted in a burning world. Here’s a… Continue Reading “All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed”