Poetry Gave Me The Space To Not Make Sense

me, filming myself lurking in the fog 3am in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Even in my earlier artistic years, when I was in elementary school — I wrote full novel stories, filling up entire notebooks, then handing them in to my teacher. Not for a grade, for fun.

In my life i’d go through chronicles of consistent writing, then lose myself in other mediums, like creating stop-motion films with my friends or creative photography ideas or just times of taking a good…