Preface

Three Worlds is a collection of 79 poems written between 2024 and 2026, organized into three volumes: Their World, Bless You, and Still Life.

These are poems of the threshold. They are written from the edges of scenes — windows, tables, train walls, mirrors, the cold skin of a thermos — by a speaker who has learned to stand just short of entry. Arrival is not the subject. Standing close to arrival, and watching oneself stand, is the subject.

Their World is the world one is asked to enter, and the conditions of that asking. Bless You is the second person, into which love and belief and grief collapse. Still Life is the things that remain when both have grown quiet.

The three volumes are three positions of the observing self — not geographies. They are porous; the speaker moves between them the way memory actually moves: by return, by angle, by failing to arrive.

On this site, each poem is given a layout that responds to its own structure — line count, rhythm, density, repetition — and to a living clock associated with each world. The reading experience is stable in meaning but unstable in form: the same poem can wear different clothes depending on when and where you meet it.

The poems are written in English as a displaced grammar: image-first, color-led, asymmetrical when accuracy requires it.

Ongoing digital edition.

— Spring 2025; edition note updated 2026