Darts and Provocations: Volume 2

Beauty, Brutality, and Binary Madness

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

Sousarion Reacts #6 — Secrets Sung Aloud

A Sonnet Crown for Petrarch

Aug 25 • 

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July 2025

Sousarion Reacts #5: Thoughts on Thucydides

Lessons from the war that broke the Greek world.

Jul 23 • 

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Darts and Provocations: Volume 1

Each line a spark. Each spark, a projectile.

Jul 10 • 

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June 2025

Sousarion Reacts #4: Plato's P*rnography

A Reading of the Lovers (NSFW)

Jun 26 • 

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Just Fine, but not Great

Even the knife gets dull

Jun 9 • 

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May 2025

The Work of Love

A dive into first love and the work of growing in it

May 27 • 

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Sousarion Reacts #3

Aristotle, Kazantzakis, Petrarch — on knowledge, uncertainty, sorrow, and longing

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Instrumentality

A Poem

Apr 7 • 

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March 2025

The Most Devastating Song I Know

Franz Schubert’s “Gretchen at Her Spinning Wheel,” composed at 17, and why it wrecks me

Mar 23 • 

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A Meditation on Happiness

From the pursuit to the partaking.

Mar 15 • 

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February 2025

Echoes of Extinction

Whispers of Return: A Poem

Feb 25 • 

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