Everything begs a name.
We have an existential impulse to label
the seen, the felt...
Nomenclature
January sun
another morning
another theatre of impunity
another threat...
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Window strike
Over a billion birds die each year from
collisions with glass planes. They believe
the reflections...
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Here’s my first poem of the new year. Hope 2026 is gentle and kind and full of creative energy. A very happy new year to all at WordPress. I look forward to reading and sharing more poetry this year! Check out more of my posts on Substack or Instagram (@tp_poetry).
Countdown conversation
10-9-8-
another year:
with the usual tropes and lights
and the usual...
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Asking a woman
They say there are forty-one things you
should never ask a woman. But add to
that list: 1. whose name her lover...
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About two-thirds
All that dark energy
swirling in space —
being...
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Honeycomb
Patterns evolve deliberately:
minimalist geometry for maximum life.
Like the hexagonal...
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Thirteen ways of looking at a poem
sometimes
the moon is
a letter in the poem
sometimes a space
sometimes...
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Transformation
my first memory
is awkwardness:
stumbling half-blind...
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Where am I ?
Where are you, he messages, urgently,
though his exasperation doesn’t
fit into the...
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THOUGHT PURGE 