SURPRISE! Happy solstice. I’m releasing a 24-page prose poem collection today, for free. I’ve been working on it for a while and I’m pretty excited about it.
In 2024 I started writing short pieces of prose poetry about destroying of works of art. I started with paintings, then moved on to perfume, performance art, novels, music, even ideas. The goal of the poems was always the same: to depict the piece’s destruction, its erasure, or its unmaking.
Originally, these pieces were intended as background exercises for a larger fiction project— but recently I revisited them and was pleasantly surprised at how well they stood on their own. So I collected some of the best into this, Elegy Ekphrasis, my work of mourning for dead works of art, my studies for destruction.
It certainly goes some places. As a gift to my friends and anyone who likes art and poetry, I have made this piece available for free both as a PDF and a print-and-fold zine template.
You can check it out here, on my website.
If you like this piece, please tell me and please share it around! It would mean the absolute world to me.
