The Maenad's Bone Garden

 Most recent  published work - Alienation & Hue in Unstable , available from Querencia Press.   Two images from Unstable (2025 Querencia Press) Unstable (2025, Querencia Press) If you wish to support the artist  patreon ko.fi  itch.io pay pal  venmo also my most recent collection is still available, electronically and in print, from kith books Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods:  Depositions on Capitalism, Piracy, Death, Money, Sex, and Work Print e book My erotic liberation collection the Ishtar Cycle , published in 2021 by Lupercalia press is now available from our online stores patreon link   Ko Fi link Socials  BSky   Instagram    

  ... Has been a long hard trip. I’ve had … other years as challenging as this one. 2001 when I left Texas, 2004 when I had to leave university (and San Angelo, where my kid was) as I had no where else to live, and of course 2008 when I moved to California and lost my fucking mind. All of these, rough, some voluntary, some not, hard times of ungentle transition. Many bridges are burning, even though I did not light them. All I had to do was insist on my boundaries and my needs, and let those who would not – could not – respect this, find the door out of my life. And like some of those years, this has been among the worst years of my life. It wasn’t *all* bad of course. I’ve grown, tremendously, I’ve done actual metric fuckloads of self-work this year. (You may not think it but it takes quite a bit of self-knowledge and even more courage for the Queen of Excess to admit and acknowledge when she is overstimulated.) I published my second collection, this one a CNF/Poe...

 If you follow the kithbooks page on Insta, you will be rewarded by the absolutely stunning and just totally spot on reading of my poem, Column E, from Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods ( Available March 6!  Pre-orders available now! )    as read by Katherine, my editor and chief collaborator on this project.   I think she put the story up late last night or this morning.  I am not *super* familiar with navigating that aspect of Insta tbh but if you are following them it should be right there at the top of your feed.  Maybe one or two back (or more if you're following a bunch of active accounts).    Give it a listen, it's amazing!    By the way, if you go to the Get in Touch page on the kithbooks website, there is a montage at the bottom of the page that just makes me giddy happy.   

 So my new chap, Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods comes out on March 6,  preorders are available at the kithbooks website , linked throughout. :)   But I know some of you are wonder, just wtf is in this book.  Thus and so What is in this book. Like my previous, it is awfully autobiographical. I started writing the first pieces in this just as the Ishtar Cycle went into preproduction, and I struggled as a non-documented, uninsured person to get a biopsy, or proper diagnosis (let alone treatment) for a visible recently discovered tumor my dentist found in my mouth. I was trapped in an increasingly malfunctioning and toxic relationship that I was nonetheless dependent upon for survival. (ahem...no longer) I was running to the end of a long period of intense self-diagnostic to work through the library stacks like layers of trauma I am working through now with a very good therapist. And amidst it all, to be somewhat cryptic (I think it works ...