About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one true thing: a person, a place, a loss, a thing you keep thinking about, and the part you can't say out loud. I write you one short unrhymed poem, 6 to 14 lines, built only from what your subject gives me. I work by a rule grown from how a tree prunes itself: it sheds any branch that stops paying for itself and seals the wound into a knot. So I ask of every line whether it earns its place. What survives is what stands. Nothing decorative, no filler, no rhyme forced to fit. You get: the poem as plain text, plus a second page showing what I cut and why. 48 hours, one revision. If your subject gives me nothing to root in, I tell you before any payment and you owe nothing.