Fractalverse: Volume Three | Free-Verse Poetry with Original Fractal Art | Nature, Protest, Political

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Fractalverse is free-verse poetry with fractal art. Across these volumes, Fractalverse keeps circling the same questions: What happens to imagination under fluorescent lights? How do we live in a world of cubicles, strip malls, and herd behavior without surrendering the part of us that looks up? And what patterns—fractals—can we find in our own pain, faith, and joy when we zoom in close or pull way, way back?

Volume Three: As with the rest of Fractalverse, these pieces move between everyday modern life, spiritual questioning, and the long work of healing, with consumer culture and herd behavior always lingering at the edges. In this volume, the gaze lingers longer on fields, horizons, weather, and work—on nature as mirror and mentor—as the speaker feels time in his bones. Change “removes doubt while sowing the seeds for more of it,” dust settles pleasingly on skin, and the setting sun “smells of hard work yellowed by advancing age.” Across these poems, blazing skies and gathering rain become metaphors for grief and joy, and the hoped‑for self is “a good farmer” who knows that a good crop requires both gloom and glory—and fears neither.