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Essays, poems, and the places that hold what happened there

Michigan ghost towns, roadside oddities, philosophy, and the occasional cocktail. New pieces go out first on my Substack, The Republic of Dust.

The sign at the entrance to Pere Cheney Cemetery in Beaver Creek Township, Michigan, reading Historic Pere Cheney Cemetery, established 1878

Essay, October 19, 2025

Haunted Pere Cheney Cemetery, Michigan: History, Witch Legend & My October Visit

Pere Cheney Cemetery near Grayling, Michigan: the ghost town lost to diphtheria, its witch legend, and what I found on an October visit.

Poems and essays

Poem, October 12, 2026
Stone Dams
A poem about the creek by Grand Blanc Middle School: childhood, the natural world, and our attempts to control what can’t be controlled.
Recipe, December 30, 2025
Second Hour Aperitivo: The Italian Amaro Nonino Grapefruit Cocktail You Need to Try
Second Hour Aperitivo: an Amaro Nonino and pink grapefruit highball with a grapefruit-bitters salt rim, built for the hour between work and dinner.
Essay, October 28, 2025
Freed from the Clock: Siffre’s Cave, Buddhist Moments, and Heidegger’s Lived Time
Michel Siffre’s cave experiments, Buddhist momentariness, and Heidegger’s lived time: how our sense of time changes when the clock falls away.
Chapbook, March 1, 2025
I Got Lost
A free five-poem chapbook, each poem set somewhere specific, with illustrations by Rein G.

From The Republic of Dust

My newsletter on Substack: essays on odd history, art, and attention.