Philosophical poetry, Ampersands.
Notes and everything between.
A philosophical collection about wonder, identity, memory, language, love, and everything that refuses to fit into a single answer. For readers who came through Letters I'll Never Send, it also asks what happens after survival becomes ordinary life. A curated preview is free to read online, the print edition holds the full manuscript.
Stay close to Ampersands
The introduction and reading room excerpts of Ampersands are always free to read here. Follow along for a free digital edition of the first six parts of Letters I'll Never Send and one new piece each week.
Wonder
On mythology, nature, time, and the questions a child never stops asking.
Self
Notes on the body, the mask, the mirror, and the slow work of self-recognition.
I. The Ring
Read →II. The Mask
Read →III. & IV. Chained and Free
In printV. Meditation on the Ring
In printMirror Mirror
Read →Aphasia
Read →Dysphagia
In printFriendship
In printFragments
In printTired
In printBody & Bones
In printRecognition & Identity
In printRead Aloud
In printLigaments
In printColorless
In printRelease
In printReluctance
In printDoctor
In printDrainage
In printRuby
In printMasochist
In printSelf
In print
Others
The people who shape us — the ones who stay, the ones who leave, and the echoes of both.
Separation
In printLove
In printStaircase
In printShape
In printEthereal
In printSoft Cotton & Citrus Trees
In printHello
In printRebecca
Read →Tasteless Words
In printAppellate
In printEcho Chamber
In printOthers & Ourselves
Read →Pursuit
In printContagion
In printCPR
In printBlue
In printSmile
In printOthers
In print
Memory
On what memory keeps, what it lets go, and the truths it rearranges along the way.
Breath
On stillness, insomnia, weight, and the small acts of returning to yourself.
&
The title part. On everything between — the small conjunctions that hold a life together.
The rest lives in print.
The online reading room is a curated preview. The print edition of Ampersands holds the entire manuscript: every poem, every note, every ampersand , in hardcover and paperback.