Mire & Moonlight

some flowers only blossom in mire and moonlight

Wu wei distilled into language. Poems written from radical presence — not about what remains after the self dissolves, but from it.


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unnamed unborn sit stand move effort ceases no narrator no witness no method no goal raw perception life lives itself "I" appears — let it just this

無為

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beside a green pond ripples remind me nowhere but now

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this body is a flute warm wind breathes through hollow bones sea of bamboo sways in the breeze the song of no place

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falling snow bends tree river frozen morning silence no flowers no fruit perfect harvest

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dark graveyard the earth here is mud soaked by yesterday's rain my feet sink as I walk yet the stars are the only light I need to dance on my grave some flowers only blossom in mire and moonlight


The full collection

Mire & Moonlight is a curated collection of 34 poems on presence, constraint, and dissolution. Released freely under Creative Commons, because poetry — like methodology — should flow without gatekeepers.

Core principles: radical presence, extreme compression. Trust the image. White space as text. Endings that dissolve.

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The poetry and the infrastructure come from the same place: a brain that runs on fascination, not discipline.

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