Poetic Drift Index

A collection of poetry, poetic prose, and lyrical essays exploring cosmic dread, eroticism and the human condition.

A collection of poetry, poetic prose, and lyrical essays exploring themes of cosmic dread, mythology, desire, transformation, memory, identity, loss, resilience, and the strange intersections between the ordinary and the unknowable. Some works feature narrated readings, character-driven audio, original soundscapes, and other immersive audio elements designed to deepen the experience and atmosphere of the text.

Poetry and Poetic Prose

1. Verdant Cerulean

2. Sloughing Free

3. What do you feel when you hear me speak your name?

4. Exquisite Devastation

5. Drink in the Low Water

6. Do you Remember Before?

7. Subtle Current, Soft Heat

8. Our Refinement

9. They are Closer Now

10. I wish wandering would find me lost

11. Thrall

12. Transmission: The Low Water Returns

13. The Beckoning from within

14. Veneficium Ex Tenebris

15. The Field

16. Closer Still

17. Portrait of a New American Patriot

18. Skaldsong - Son of the Keelfather

19. Chromatic Spiral

20. Skaldsong - Winter’s Wail

21. Skaldsong - The Fisherman of Gjöll

22. Skaldsong - The Shipwright of Gjöll

23. The Galling Wood (Paid)

24. Hephaestus Bound (Paid)

25. Skaldsong

Lyrical Essays

1. Why do I think of someone who no longer wants me?

2. How do I imagine a future that seems impossible to reach?

3. Joel’s definitely a serial killer

4. Why do they feel familiar in a way I can’t explain?

5. What does it mean when this is the only thing I can still feel?

6. On closure

7. The mistranslation of shadows

8. The Ache that remembers

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