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XVIII. Things I Don't Understand: "Up" (Part I).
There are signs that point left. Signs that point right. And then there are signs that point "Up"... Without explanation, context, or the courtesy of being metaphorical.
Charlene Iris
Jul 12, 20253 min read


XVII. Time is Badly Made.
"There’s a bench with the arm broken off. The paint flakes like pages left in the sun. A pigeon nests underneath it like permanence could be proximity. And someone stands nearby: still fading, still here. Almost sitting. Almost gone"
Charlene Iris
Jul 10, 20252 min read


XVI. The Anatomy of Want.
He has everything.
Still, he wants.
A poetic autopsy of power and the man it unravels.
Charlene Iris
Jul 9, 20252 min read


XV. Don’t Watch Our Alien Movies.
The aliens came for insight. They left clinically depressed. A darkly funny monologue on observation, spectacle, and socks with Crocs.
Charlene Iris
Jul 7, 20253 min read


XIV. Ode to Chicken Wings.
Twelve chickens. One plate. And the haunting begins. A surprisingly spiritual dive into a late-night chicken binge.
Charlene Iris
Jul 6, 20252 min read


XIII. The Labour Tree.
“My labor tree has yet to flower, but grows taller, likes to mock me.”
A poem about patient hope and tending without proof.
Charlene Iris
Jun 30, 20253 min read


XII. The Coral Halls.
What secrets lie beneath the reef’s shimmering surface? Dive into a poetic exploration of underwater politics, hidden alliances, and silent dramas .
Charlene Iris
Jun 28, 20252 min read


XI. The Velvet Dark.
"If the world bruises you blue, I’ll still be here. Tea warm. Light low. Quiet enough to hear you."
Charlene Iris
Jun 27, 20252 min read


X. A Hush That Hums.
I sip the hour. I taste the air.
Not every day glows, but most days hum.
This is a piece about those days.
Charlene Iris
Apr 13, 20251 min read


IX. To Old Friends, Part I: Memory.
I don’t reach for the past, but it finds me. Like an unsent note in a jacket pocket, still folded. Still warm.
Charlene Iris
Apr 11, 20252 min read
Musings
Wander through the dusk-lit rooms of SomEpiphany.
A living archive: the tender, the tangled, the mildly ridiculous. Fragments of life that insisted on being remembered.
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