Van Miranda

Poetry

Proximity Warning

Slicing through apathy at the train station

Song

old friend fade

I wish you well, anyway. A song about fading away from old friends, for now.

Poetry

The Ticket is not a Reservation

Map-terrain relationships and our reliance on exacting digital models

Poetry

When sand becomes glass

Doubt, and other ways to convey what we know authentically

Poetry

Mirror Platform 434

A hypothetical poem about banning FlikPop

Poetry

76 Card Pick-up

A poem about the interview process, and other silly games we play with the world

Poetry

Dragonfly in Amber

How stuck victim wounds show up seeking validation on social media

Reflection

Yes, you wrote about Gaza

A response to a "No, I'm not writing about Gaza"

Poetry

Red Letter Day

A cathartic poem about being laid off, with a call to change

Story

The Journaling Room

A Scene-Sketch about a space after this and before that

Poetry

She's not ours, but we feed her

Notions of Responsibility in The Universal Cat Distribution System

Poetry

Angel of Light

A Shaman once told me they saw an Angel of Light; I believe them

Reflection

Branches: What could interactive writing do for us?

What if writing was interactive? Inspired by TikTok Duets & Git Forks

Poetry

Rest/rot Consciousness

If you've heard of "couch/bed rot" and like Shel Silverstein, this may be for you

Prompt

Branches Prompt #1: Overheard at the Cafe

A writing prompt: you can't sleep, replaying that one conversation rising above the others in a cafe, impossible to ignore

Poetry

The Messy Part #1: Held by the mountain

A new series about the messy parts of writing, and how a poem unfolds

Poetry

Held by the mountain

A hike in the Sintra clouds

Poetry

Ordering out

When we order we do, have, and take subito, allora finger slide double tap and wait think I’ll have the salmon She’ll take the steak ok, Io vorrei no give in play set down, folded up and all statements to them, it must sound like dancing feet cross

Poetry

Continental Drift

Connection in a brittle world

Poetry

The Bar Cart

A Champagne Story

Reflection

A Writer

A new substack about "becoming a Writer" and what I can tell you on the way