A Crow At The Beach Is Like A Seagull At A Funeral

Raking The Leaves

A meditation on endings.

Jan 14 • G. K. Allum

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I've Been Out Drinking With Bukowski, Again

One NonProfit, 12 months, and 6,000 Subscribers Later...

Jan 7 • G. K. Allum

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December 2025

II-V-I

from The Familiarity

Dec 31, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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A Cubist Christmas

Inspired by e. e. cummings

Dec 24, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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Lightness After

They say grief is a raven.

Dec 17, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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The Errant Larynx of Sir Anthony Hopkins

A gothic-horror verse in iambic pentameter.

Dec 10, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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What Chance Did We Ever Have?

Long title, short poem.

Dec 3, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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November 2025

If I Follow You Into The Water Will My Lungs Collapse?

Breath as memory, and the body as its own storyteller.

Nov 26, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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Ballast

A poem about the weight of long-term love.

Nov 19, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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Threading

A Poem for My Stepfather, My Derek.

Nov 12, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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An Approximation of Love

Based on a hundred and forty remaining attempts

Nov 5, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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October 2025

A New Beginning: Announcing Ink & Ribbon Press

The official launch of Ink & Ribbon Press — a nonprofit publisher devoted to poetry

Oct 29, 2025 • G. K. Allum

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