My 1st book, Impaired Judgments: A Collection of Poems, is available now! All of the included poems were originally written by me between 2010-2025, largely during difficult times to help process emotions. Despite the association with my life nothing is offered as fact or evidence and is rather a rough wireframe of a story made up of my poems put together. Due to this the poems only reflect a singular (often negative & mentally ill) perspective and not the whole truth of any matter.
Often I'd ruminate about the past, devolving into negative spirals spent interpreting myself, others, & circumstances through the warped lenses. These were my impaired judgments about my life, my struggles, and my early recovery from those struggles. Poetry has become a way to get the thoughts or patterns I'd ruminate about out of my head. This also turned them into something productive rather than destructive and over time I've accumulated enough to transform into this book, Impaired Judgments.
I hope that these poems find those who relate to (or connect with) them and at the very least they provide entertainment while reading. Despite the subject matter I do not believe that my circumstances are the worst or even relatively bad when compared to others but rather that they just simply are.