Archive - Dispatches From the Basement

Three short poems

deep into autumn

Nov 15 •

Altar and Offering

a poem for the cold

Nov 13 •

a poem without negative side-effects

Nov 9 •

For All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day

a poem for my patron saint

Nov 2 •

October 2025

For the end of October

Oct 30 •

A small autumnal prayer

Oct 23 •

“Bright beyond alarm…”

from Eclipse Season, a new book in progress

Oct 11 •

an October poem

Oct 6 •

a poem for October

Oct 1 •

September 2025

On Michaelmas (with a phrase from Rilke)

Sep 29 •

For the first day of autumn

plus an announcement

Sep 22 •

for Charlie Kirk

Sep 13 •

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