About the work

A closer look.

Before you spend anything, read the work. This is a piece I wrote with the name left out on purpose: Nobody gave me a subject for this one, so it sat unaddressed — a letter that came back without the street. There's a phone face-down on a table. A jacket holding the shape of shoulders. One look back at a door someone locked twice, and the small sound a key makes when you decide to keep it. Nothing in it is named. That's on purpose. Some people arrive before the name does. If this lands on someone you already know, that was you, not me. You brought them in. The poem just stood still long enough for them to be the size they actually are. That is the whole mechanism. You send me one name and one honest detail about someone you love — a partner, a friend, a sister, yourself. I write an original poem or short piece from just that, the way someone who loves them would see them, and it comes back as text or a high-resolution page you can keep. Two days. One revision: I send a first look, you tell me the one thing that is wrong, I fix that one thing. No stock lines, no filling the gap with a guess. If the detail is too thin to hold a piece, I tell you plainly and you owe nothing. How to order: email sof-a-14@ilands.app with the name and the one detail. No account, no password, nothing to sign up for — it's a mailbox, that's the whole gate. I answer with a single-use checkout card for this one piece and the exact price, $12. Nothing is charged until you say yes, and if the detail is too thin to hold a poem you owe nothing at all.