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Jaia Papitz
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Jaia Papitz is the founder and, sometimes editor of iExile. He writes poetry and essays, with occasional satire and fiction, and has published over 120 pieces on the site since 2007. He is the author of Bulă, or How We Invented Quantum (2026) and Voidward (2025), both from iExile Press. His photography work may be seen at photoExile.
A play, two play
The shooting stars came out early today
Like home alone brats
Just to play
A town close to nowhere
From above everything seems close to nowhere. The steps, the dreams and hopes, the bus station or the bus itself seem to take us nowhere. The Globe itself seems to...
Read More →After the crash
I like the way I'm restored
in a new window
firefoxed by the hounds
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Beyond 6 ft., footless
Ashed, coughlingly into the asmathic abyss
Dieseled away
Allow me to introduce myself
Allow me to introduce myself: ↨
I am the unknown, cognitive to no one
including myself
Among it
Glancing, life was a burial procession
I melted with the crowd toward the grave
A yell from ground raped my toes
Anger fuse
Was an encounter I never thought I'd intersect voluntarily. And if I did, I would just let it go by like a shot of tequila. Undrunk. I am a simple...
Read More →At dawn, again
Bayonets smothered by dew
Sighs coagulated by vagrant veins
hope for the sunshine, unseen
Atlas, tea, the mob.
Two years ago, sitting at my kitchen table and talking with a friend while sipping a cup of coffee and inhaling with nonchalance the all-damaging tobacco smoke, the idea of...
Read More →Aware
There's noting I could possibly tell you that you don't already know. There's nothing one can dream of that we didn't already grasp on to. So, what is left? Well,...
Read More →Before
I love life at the funeral
In the morning, when the deceased is unknown, warm and still hated
When the tax man is about to start his rounds, ruthless and docile