Awakening — February 2026

Exile

Exile is not being sent away,
it is being forced to live
where meaning still exists
but permission does not.

You feel it in moments that misfire:
a laugh arriving too early,
a thought addressed to no one,
a warmth with no object.

The field remains intact.
Only access is revoked.
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I'm Owen. Poetry is how I make sense of the distance between people: the longing, the quiet, the things we feel but rarely say aloud. Each poem is a moment caught mid-breath.

My work explores connection, love, and the fleeting instants that define us. Inspired by the greats who taught me that language can hold what life cannot.

Frost Rumi e.e. cummings Browning Kafka Henley Noyes

From the Collection

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01
Musings January 2026

When I Say ‘I Love You’

When I say I love you
time loosens its belt.
The past stops arguing,
the future leans closer to listen.
02
Uncategorized January 2026

Geometry of Longing

Perhaps this is love now,
not the collision of bodies,
but the sustained attention
we offer each other
across impossible space.
03
30 Days of You January 2026

You, Again

Night brings you without apology.
You lie beside my thoughts
as if you have always belonged there,
as if forgetting were a language
my body never learned.
04
30 Days of You December 2025

Unsent

I tell myself: stop.
Enough ink, enough hunger.
Enough reaching across air.
But the words do not listen.
They spill from me
like water from a cracked jar,
like poems that learned your name
before they learned restraint.