Notes from the Author

Content Warning: This chapbook mentions of death and passing.

Inspired Poem Acknowledgments

1.Standing in the ceiling – inspired by the poem “I found the crawlspace roomy” by RE Katz

2.Found, even in translation – inspired by the song “Through the Night” by IU

I would have lost the pictures, if I could, if they didn’t sound like you. Here again, your laugh chimes, hands clap like aural light rays blurring through closed eyes, windows to a once viscous, ever-flaring soul. I did lose the kitchen things, but the wooden spoons would’ve snapped before burning, if they stirred anything up. These days, I watch chemical changes confined to a chrysalis fighting its instincts, doing its darnedest to send a butterfly back to the ground. Atlantis did exist and Atlantis did sink. I’ve recently gotten into deep-sea photography, most of which is done in a boat on the surface, waiting for dead things to come up.