01
A Tree Through the Forest (film)2019
A villanelle whose paired refrains mutate as they return, each repetition escalating, until the form itself enacts what the poem is about.
02
Murdered Mind (film)2025
Sustained fourteener couplets, reworking a 2014 original a decade on; the closing lines reverse everything the poem had seemed to be saying.
03
Apoclyte (film)2019
Sixteen lines carried on two rhyme sounds — a study in phonetic control that never lets the constraint show.
04
Seeds of Memory: From Death (film)2017
A kyrielle whose refrain holds steady until the final stanza earns the right to change it.
05
The Garden of Perspective (film)2024
A reversible poem: read top to bottom or bottom to top, both readings complete, each answering the other.
06
Ersatz Machinations (film)2018
A ladder of interrogative refrains, each question narrowing on the last, resolving at the end to the declarative “I am.”
07
Stalked in Realms (film)2014
Envelope quatrains in tight dimeter; the close circles back to the opening, sealing the loop the poem describes.
08
Shadowshine (film)2014
The collection’s namesake and its thesis — an interrogative lyric asking whether darkness can be a form of light.
09
The Chair (film)2020
A late-period prose poem that moves by chained pivots, each paragraph turning out of the one before it.
10
Red Shift (film)2015
A war elegy that refuses commentary and is carried entirely by its images.
11
The Forest Disease2015
A short-lined atmosphere piece — the first growth of the forest imagery the 2019 work returns to.
12
Circle of Light2017
An eclipse rendered in rolling triple meter, internal rhyme layered beneath the surface of the lines.
13
Shadowed Hypocrisy2015
A satire in chained rhyme, tightening line by line toward a closing couplet that lands like a verdict.
14
The Nine2014
The collection’s longest sustained dream-vision, and one that lands its narrative rather than dissolving it.
15
Nihilismearly notebook
An early prose poem held on a single rhyme — the seed from which The Chair later grew.
16
Treatise2018
Thirteen lines arranged as a chiasmus — the collection’s thesis, delivered in the imperative.
17
The Memory Tree2014
A love elegy built on a trailing-rhyme pivot, each stanza’s last rhyme handing the next its first.
18
Perversion of Light2015
Two poems interleaved line by line — each legible alone, both changed by being read together.
19
Fly Amanita2019
A tonal gamble: bright sonics laid over dark matter, turning exactly when it must.
20
Remanence2026
A mutated sestina: six end-word families drift as the room’s objects lose their homes, then quietly take them back.
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