Folklore of the Self"Folklore of the Self" explores trauma in reverse-chronological order, delving into the past as constructed narrative.Fahmidan & Co. Publishing, 2023
mmayer5
Poet, educator, man-moth (with all due respect to Elizabeth Bishop). Works here are non-exhaustive.
NC, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (20 publications)
Three Poems: In the Veins; American Ophelia; Semaphore"should I write them/ out of the privacy of death"
poetry
My Beloved Addresses Me with One Last Pastoral"I have charmed/ the moon/ the ribbed bottom,/ strewed with dark/ summer nights"
poetry
erasure
What Is History If Not an Endlessly Fragmented Archive"to sing a song of our own, unlike that of birds or honey..."
poetry
experimental
Two Poems: After My Appendectomy, I Think of Amber Benson's Role in Buffy; Afterimage"...softness, a dream i cannot reach. her/ touch lingers./ it sings through inexperience and
the haze of hospital drugs:/ it traces my outline, makes me/ more than my post-surgery self..."
poetry