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A silhouette suspended between memory and momentum: Aldonza in the space where two worlds meet
Ahmed's painting
The art of waiting for the giant
A deserted indoor hallway in a ruined, deteriorating house
The thirteenth floor
A not-so-beatific NYC suicide beat
A woman with striking blue eyes illuminated by soft blue string lights
Wings, wounds, and other inventions of the self
A poetic journey through desire, distortion, survival, and rebirth
Hands extended in trust, reflecting the vulnerability of wanting to be part of the world again
Reaching for a connection
Learning that needing love doesn’t make you weak—it makes you alive
A woman framed by roses, mirroring the tender illusions shaped by childhood stories and telenovelas
The evolution of my perception of love
I think love grows as I do
A woman writing in her diary, representing the quiet rebellion of self-expression
Nice girls don’t write diaries
A manifesto of a self-aware woman who dares to feel, think, and be too much
Hand in hand, they move forward — a quiet moment of safety and belonging beneath the trees
Before
Memory loops in a time of war
A black raven perched on a tree branch
The raven’s feast: a song of ashes and wings
A surreal meditation on human folly, avian vengeance, and the cyclical dance of fire, flesh, and rebirth
An impressionistic painting capturing the quiet intensity of thought, as a writer balances memory, rhythm, and silence at the edge of expression
Echoes around a caged meaning
On writing, tools, and the architecture of authenticity
A woman stares out as it rains, reflecting the constant pain that lingers within at the memories of her whom she lost
The colour of her absence was blue
A story about grief and post-traumatic stress disorder
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, ink and watercolor, by José Jiménez Aranda
The language under the language
What words remember when we cannot
One moment of distraction, and the world teeters on the edge
Longing for you
How close can two people be?
A piece of ginger on a cutting board with some aromatics, representing the importance of the fresh ingredients that add depth and complexity to dishes
The price of spice
How modern seeds threaten the flavours and futures of our farms
Under the weight of bodies, tanks, and one final lock, the bridge gives way—Trer’s justice made real
Collapse
A story of weight and reckoning
Under the night sky, a person gazes at shooting stars and meteors
Fireflies and divine stars
Poems of honesty, dissonance, and a restless heart
Historic Hawkins-Agnew House © Photo by John Macanas
Pondering on the Drive
A poem on the history of urban living through the lens of Vancouver’s Commercial Drive
A woman looking at her reflection, representing the curiosity about one's appearance that always exists
Reflections: a story for little eyes
From mirrors to photos—a grandma’s whisper through time
Sometimes, the most extraordinary discoveries are hiding just beneath the surface
Unearthing
He meant to be history, but history had other plans
Gary Lewis blends style and and ambition in front of his Mercedes Benz
“There is only forward”: an interview with Gary Lewis
On resilience, reinvention and the relentless pursuit of purpose
A once-thriving city now burns under a blood-red moon, its ruins swallowed by fire and falling stars—a silent witness to the end written in ash and sky
Leviathan dreams in uranium
Who dare stand against the fissionable glitch of an eclipsed fuse???
Under the Paris sky, she realized that some loves aren’t fleeting — they’re meant to stay
The last encounter
Learn to accept your fate
Lost in imagined journeys, where music and dreams become a window to distant places
Invisible malady
How turning an invisible struggle into creative purpose
A man gazes up at the enormous moon in the night sky, captured in an AI-generated image
Fulfillment is not a state—it is a pattern
A sapiopoietic essay on civilizational futures, freedom, and the end of optimization
Behind the swirl: sweetness sold, identity withheld
Saccharine
Longing, sweetness, and the bitter truth of what it means to belong
A surreal, dreamlike oil painting captures the fusion of modern disconnection and poetic imagination
So much depends upon and other poems
Signals from the fringe
A gothic skull surrounded by dark roses and thorny vines stands out against a deep crimson background
Crimson skulls & chameleon wings
Poems on screams, survival, and the disguises we wear
Woman (‘Sien’) seated near the stove - Vincent van Gogh
We’re not in a good place—we’re in different places
A quiet unraveling, a plea to be seen, and the brave decision to choose peace over pretending
Delphi by Edward Lear features the Phaedriades
7 cities, 7 sages, and one Apollo: god of order and light
A sacred center for wisdom, culture, and science in Delphi’s timeless light
Wine on the sand, under the setting sun—the perfect beginning to a nostalgic and intimate night
A surprise encounter
Surprises are not always a good thing
A grayscale image of a clenched fist against a black background
Cutting a blade
Scissor-hands and lab frogs
An aerial view of the city at night reveals a rare silence—its streets darkened by a widespread power outage
Spain unplugged: notes from a powerless day
The day the lights went out
In the shattered landscape of war, a single white flower rises from the rubble of a bombed-out city, defying the smoke and flame that engulf the ruins behind it, as a quiet meditation on resilience and grief
Gaza: simple truths, complex wars
Meditations on devastation, resilience, and the search for meaning amidst the ruins
A black and white photograph of an angel statue in a cemetery
The weight of not realising something is immense
A confession from the edge of humanity, where loss and violence forge a relentless power
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