A darkness & chaos poem about weight, body, burden, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
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The world puts its weight down beside the object and walks away. For one bright moment, nothing is heavy. Then my body takes the missing burden. I carry it home, though no one saw it fall.
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A charge passes from image to observer, making attention itself responsible for what it intensifies.
An image-led poem of a central figure, raised phones and a warm bulb, where the room resists becoming only a collection of frames.
A surreal poem of a woman and a serpent-knot, where darkness becomes a measure of perception, pressure, and withheld light.
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