Today I'd like to share the foreword from my upcoming poetry and essay collection with you. Waking Up To Thrutopia will be available from Amazon for Kindle and in print soon! Thrutopia is a word coined by British philosopher Rupert Read in an article published on the British Huffington Post website in November of 2017. … Continue reading Read the introduction to my upcoming book
Author: Conny
The box
Inside is no place to hide. It is a pit, a climb—a ladder with missingsteps A dark place leading to a volte-face.Too much introspection leads to death. Pummeling by mothballs, cedar, toile de Jouy,whalebone ribs ripping,tender scribblings on lined paper. Who are you? Box or pyramid? Will you ever let me go? Inside outI walk … Continue reading The box
Photoshoot
The giant water lily clears rivalsfrom the sluggish surfaceby brandishing its pale-spiked bud like a morning star. In the cerulean murk, the bud creeps,then thrusts upward, emergingas a monstrous Aphrodite. Well-armed, the bud jets out,performs a dizzying choreographythat makes the water seethe. Victorious, the lily bud claims its spot,drives spikes into its competitionas it unfurls, … Continue reading Photoshoot
An assembly line robot wants to be a tree
On the wide factory floor, the shiny floornot scuffed by shuffling feet,a metal arm stands – bolted. For all its permanencyand never-ending action, the robot armconveys a sadness with the state of affairs. And it dreams of entropy … .. . . an energy to take hold of the small particles;to rearrange them, spinningin a … Continue reading An assembly line robot wants to be a tree
After: Relax, you’ve arrived
Not restricted to poems alone, my After series will also occasionally delve into other sources. This poem was inspired by Just One Thing, a newsletter by Rick Hanson. after Rick Hanson, PhD the cup I drink from this morning washes up on the shorethe eye that receives a sunrise this morning washes up on the … Continue reading After: Relax, you’ve arrived
Update on The Summer Book Project
In the second half of 2020 I started a book-long erasure poetry and collage project: The Summer Book project. I have been mining Tove Jansson's The Summer Book for poetic lines that express the isolation of living with a bewildering chronic illness and the struggle to keep a sense of purpose. This came about after … Continue reading Update on The Summer Book Project
Tender Rebellion 