The year was one of great suffering and joy, death and life, sickness and health, division and unity. Never in my life has the world been so polarized, so connected and distanced. Through the thick fog of uncertainty, of terror, of absurdity, of life changed forever, these words came to me.

I found these poems in 2021. 9 years later, they enchant me with a sense of another life, another way of seeing the world. There was something very magical about college, especially in a poetry department in Philadelphia. My variously inclined professors were as ostensibly pretentious as necessary and set a spiritual regard for it deep in my heart.