“Small Form Reality” can be described as “life on earth” experiences: the “daily grind,” and observations of the profane. These poems examine concrete experiences and the smaller reality as perceived by the “small mind” (superficial layer of the “nuclei” of our consciousness): the analytical brain.

Typically, Small Form Reality poetry tries to “ascend” by taking the mundane and lifting them to a cerebral (literary, academic) level, instead of “descending”: capture and interpret the (descending) rains of the heavens.

Synonymously, most poets work “outwardly in” rather than “inwardly out”; that is to say, they throw meaning as though it were clothes on meaning. I try to do the opposite, which is to strip myself of the illusions of reality.

I typically don’t like to write poetry that “describes” the daily grind. But by necessity, some experiences I want to express are too large in scope to decipher literally in journal entry, and too grounded to ask the stars to excuse their tasks in order to participate.

So here you have it, my Small Form Realities verses: me telling stories about my experiences in poetry format.

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