Author
Jaia Papitz
125 works
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.
Leftover love
I hid you in my thought
Deep, in dark ravines
Behind mountains of chores
Let there be science!
After eight years of a delusional presidency – where talking snakes, senator horses and born-again were more important than knowledge itself – we finally attempt to reenter onto the path...
Read More →Letting go… there
Let's make love where the sky ends
Come with me there, today
I'll pick you up at the end of the tunnel
Mecca vaccine
The word Mecca from the title could be replaced by any of the following: Hollywood, Holy-Land etc. since they represent the same essence but with a different form. Perhaps Dream...
Read More →Metaphorless
I’d like to fuck mountains in the ass
Forcing their lava subside in the liver
Cirrhotic and moonshinless
Moral undance
Naked, by the moonless breath
With visible hope, unfogging glossy moans
Destatuing the unrisen
Mortaling
Sex, the nirvana of plebe
Robeless, uninitiated
Moaning, careless of nightingale
Mourning, into the absurd
Like the powerless gazelle watching its calf being eviscerated ravenously by an insensitive feline, we mourn absurdly the perennial tragedy. Why? What monster could have committed this atrocity? The mirror’s...
Read More →napkin for the soul – stutz!
The beauty'n every leaf
I see
Its spawn in the undug below
Ode to Stupid
You,
you slaughtered methaphors in ditches
Turned revolving souls into stomping flats
Of all,
Unhatched, our past
Laid rotten in the nest
Even the runt flew close to the embrace
Of late
I’m late
the century just passed by carrying the breathable
ticketless, on the red painted curb
Of said
Why should one wait, the hope or dream
the patience has been given as obedience, not virtue
one will receive what one despises, at their will
of…
I wouldn't start the email with a barren dear or I hope this finds you well...
I want to be polite like a gentle summer rain after the drought
and lascivious like a baby born naturally, I want.
Omeleted Savior
Oh, how much I loved myself
Like an immortal, aware
Of my infinity, senseless