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Life & Place

Life & Place / Notes

Mad heart

There’s “law firms”, there’s “global law firms”, there’s “platforms”, all for lawyers giving them jobs.Okay good. Nothing bad.Make a super soup to give either…

Life & Place / Notes

Sleep Not Found

A "child", I was, it was just curiosity — a casual glance at a foreign language glowing on the screen. A harmless “let’s see…

Life & Place / Notes

Built for the Breakdown

The world’s not changing. It’s detonating. One algorithm at a time. One empire at a time. The giants are falling like wounded gods. Legacy…

Life & Place / Whispers

Zarwish’s First Birthday

One candle glows, a year now spun,May every dawn bless you, little one. Twelve moons have danced to greet your smile,May kindness guide each…

Life & Place / Notes

Bad In My Own Books

I read my old notes like a stranger wrote them. 2017. 2018. 2020. Back when the blood boiled, when every day felt like war.…

Life & Place / Whispers

The Fire in You

You carry a fire the world can’t see,To become who you're meant to be. It flickers most when nights are long,It feeds on silence,…

Life & Place / Whispers

Ashes in the Shape of Her

There was once a presence—not quite a girl, not merely a boy,but a light the soul recognizedbefore the mind could give it form.A breath…

Life & Place / Whispers

The Silence That Speaks

The wind held its tongue on the edge of the pines—then spoke in the hush.Not in thunder, not in verse—truth broke in the hush.…

Life & Place / Whispers

Zarwish—The Prose, The Poetry

I carried her out through the morning light,Where dew still clung to blades of grass,And robins stirred in gentle flight,And time, for once, forgot…

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