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caeai

caeai

Poems

  • Harm of Self

    This is a villanelle. It's a 19 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme. My rhymes aren't perfect, but what in poetry is?

    • Poetry
    • Dramatic
    1 min read
  • Snake

    Poem I wrote for Creative Writing

    • Poetry
    1 min read


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins