A different way to read the archive
Some poems make more sense side by side than they do filed under a theme. Each piece here takes a handful of poems from Siyahi and follows a single thread through them — a life, a mood, a question — the way you'd read a chapter rather than a shelf.
Essay · 10 poems · Love & loss
A journey through ten poems, from a mother's lap to a story still mostly written by other people — roots, doubt, friendship, purpose, falling in love, losing it, and the quiet return to where it all began.
Essay · 6 poems · Friendship
Nobody assigns you a friend and nobody makes you keep one. A walk through six poems on the relationship that asks for the least and somehow ends up holding the most.
Essay · 5 poems · Impermanence
Not the loss of a person, but the plain fact of impermanence — and the strange comfort of noticing that nature made its peace with it long before we did.
Essay · 3 poems · Home & away
A promise made before leaving home, a diagnosis of what made leaving thinkable, and a bewildered dispatch from somewhere much stranger — read together as one unfinished letter.
Essay · 6 poems · A cerebral detour
Six attempts to answer a simple question — what exactly makes you you — each one failing more interestingly than the last, until the failure starts to look like the actual answer.
Essay · 4 poems + 2 aphorisms · Satire
A generation that outsourced its thinking, its alarms, its lighting, and — allegedly — a family letter, to an algorithm that flagged it as junk. Funnier, and sadder, than it sounds.