Seasons: A Practice in Noticing

Seasons is a poetry chapbook. A small collection of poems gathered around a shared rhythm.

Writing poetry is a practice in noticing:  how time moves through the body, how change arrives quietly, often before we are ready.

What started as a simple act of attention became a way of marking the shifts that shape us, often without announcement. The turning of the year offered a structure, but the deeper movement is internal—felt in moments of stillness, tension, release, and return.

Organized around the natural cycle of the year, these poems trace inner changes alongside the outer world: beginnings, becoming, letting go, and the long pause before renewal. Each section holds a different kind of energy, yet none exist in isolation. Like the seasons themselves, they overlap, echo, and transform.

Between them live two quieter seasons—Unlocking and Locking. Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, these threshold moments sit just beneath the surface. They mark the points where something shifts: when what is held begins to loosen, and when what matters settles more firmly into place. They are not loud transitions, but often the most meaningful.

Written primarily in haiku and short forms, Seasons leans into simplicity. There is an intention to leave space for breath, for reflection, for the reader to enter. These poems do not try to explain; they notice. They return to small moments, quiet observations, and the feeling that something is changing, even if we cannot yet name it.

This collection is not meant to be rushed. It invites a different kind of reading—slower, more attentive, more open. You might move through it in one sitting, or return to it in fragments, depending on what the moment asks.

As you enter, you’ll move through the collection as a quiet, scrolling experience. Read one poem at a time, leave space to pause, linger, and notice what shifts in you along the way.

Enter Seasons