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January 2026

Ruin · Poem

a in feore groene

By Julie Parker-Kinsey, a traveler reaches a bay of spirits at the world’s edge, where winter memories and an evergreen presence is found.

a in feore groene

By Julie Parker-Kinsey, a traveler reaches a bay of spirits at the world’s edge, where winter memories and an evergreen presence is found.

Ruin · Poem

Rear-View Mirror Bridal Canopy → Windshield’s V...

Gerard Sarnat riffs on Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Tevye, Chekhov’s gun, and deus ex machina to ask what endings we expect, and what we earn.

Rear-View Mirror Bridal Canopy → Windshield’s V...

Gerard Sarnat riffs on Shakespeare, Don Quixote, Tevye, Chekhov’s gun, and deus ex machina to ask what endings we expect, and what we earn.

Ruin · Poem

In Which She Is

A three-part poem written by Betty Stanton where "she" becomes the fire, the wolf, and the fog.

In Which She Is

A three-part poem written by Betty Stanton where "she" becomes the fire, the wolf, and the fog.

Ruin · B.Seal

Like a Carrot

A Breath + Seal by Cole McNamara on awakening, cruelty, and the truth dangled like a carrot—sealed with a single word that changes everything.

Like a Carrot

A Breath + Seal by Cole McNamara on awakening, cruelty, and the truth dangled like a carrot—sealed with a single word that changes everything.

Ruin · Poem

The Ache of Renewal

A poem by Jazz about painful awakening, and renewal through awareness that's forged through tears and courage to reclaim a voice. 

The Ache of Renewal

A poem by Jazz about painful awakening, and renewal through awareness that's forged through tears and courage to reclaim a voice. 

December 2025

Ruin · Poem

Pockets of Words

A poem by Mattias Geh that carries urgency in the dark, clumped and half-readable—moving through the body as dusk arrives.

Pockets of Words

A poem by Mattias Geh that carries urgency in the dark, clumped and half-readable—moving through the body as dusk arrives.

Ruin · Poem

Unease

A poem by Edward St. James that watches the speaker with fearful unease, accusing us of the damage we’ve done and the horrors we refuse to face.

Unease

A poem by Edward St. James that watches the speaker with fearful unease, accusing us of the damage we’ve done and the horrors we refuse to face.

Ruin · Haiku

Liminence

Three haiku by Michael Aaron Harrington that follow the quiet ruin between inner and outer worlds, moving into a threshold where erosion reveals itself.

Liminence

Three haiku by Michael Aaron Harrington that follow the quiet ruin between inner and outer worlds, moving into a threshold where erosion reveals itself.

November 2025

Ruin · Poem

What If I Just Go?

An aching, split-self monologue about collapsing the system, choosing self over suffocation, and the cost of financial “safety, written by Cole McNamara.

What If I Just Go?

An aching, split-self monologue about collapsing the system, choosing self over suffocation, and the cost of financial “safety, written by Cole McNamara.

Ruin · Poem

Priority List

A Ruin poem by Cole McNamara about a system that tracks every minor infraction while shielding the powerful, and what it costs to live under that gaze.

Priority List

A Ruin poem by Cole McNamara about a system that tracks every minor infraction while shielding the powerful, and what it costs to live under that gaze.

Ruin · Poem

Decline

A formal, looping poem by Cole McNamara raising glass after glass to aging bodies, eroding faith, and the hard truth that everything, eventually, must decline.

Decline

A formal, looping poem by Cole McNamara raising glass after glass to aging bodies, eroding faith, and the hard truth that everything, eventually, must decline.

Ruin · Poem

The Monster

A villanelle by Cole McNamara about growing up queer in a hostile world, where desire is called a monster until the speaker chooses to keep it after all.

The Monster

A villanelle by Cole McNamara about growing up queer in a hostile world, where desire is called a monster until the speaker chooses to keep it after all.