The first book of poems I put together was titled Muse, Use Us. It did not survive scrutiny.

Some years later, I wrote Cosmosis and Word Problems. Then I worked on them for years afterward.

In 2014, I put together a manuscript titled Kinder Garden. It evolved into one titled Salve Age.

In 2018, I wrote a chapbook, Tremblem. It exists as a secret item.

Then came my oddest ball, 196 (fourteen squared) concatenated, ersatz sonnets, in a manuscript named Stuck-On-Its.

Three years later, now, I’m working on a manuscript called Nearvous. I also have schemes for a new chapbook, Nepenthes.

Of these sundry projects, so far, only Cosmosis is a bound, bona fide book, located here.

I’d love to find Salve Age a literary home. And Nearvous, as well, once it’s finished.

It’s been a long, slow run (nikko nikko ranningu) and a labor of intensely idiosyncratic love, finding and keeping these books.

I’ve also co-written two experimental prose works under a heteronym, Lance Tier, with my co-heteronymous friend, Veno Creg.

These are challenging pieces, one written in continuous script, the other a dialogue of overlapping annotations.

Both explore the electric potential of anticipation.

Preface

Apophenia