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Browse covers, themes, and excerpts from chapbooks born of therapy rooms, moon rituals, and manic kitchens.

A stack of handmade poetry chapbooks spread across a worn black farmhouse table, each cover featuring raw mixed-media artwork with moons, kitchen sinks, and swirling ink sigils. The chapbooks’ rough, recycled paper pages fan open, revealing glimpses of intense line breaks and abstract illustrations without legible text. Around them, scattered art tools—paint-streaked brushes, dried petals, beeswax candles, and a small cast-iron cauldron—suggest a Wiccan altar merged with a studio desk. Dramatic side lighting from an unseen window carves deep shadows and bright highlights, creating a moody, photographic realism. Shot from a slightly elevated angle with shallow depth of field, the focus rests on one vivid chapbook in the foreground while the rest blur into a chaotic yet intentional background, evoking a bold, manic-depressive creative energy.

A wide, cinematic photographic scene of a long wooden workbench transformed into a chaotic altar of creativity, covered with multiple in-progress poetry chapbooks, loose illustrated pages, and tattoo-style line art. Spirals of hand-drawn sigils and protective circles surround clusters of chapbooks, while glass jars of paint water, scattered tarot cards, and a brass mortar filled with herbs punctuate the space. Overhead, a single hanging bulb casts harsh, high-contrast light, creating sharp shadows and intense highlights that mirror a manic-depressive emotional landscape. The composition uses leading lines along the workbench to draw the eye from the foreground—a half-bound chapbook with exposed stitching—to the far end, where a small framed photo is turned face-down beside intertwined wedding rings. Shot at eye level with deep focus, the mood is bold, restless, and fiercely honest.
A close-up, low-angle photographic view of a single poetry chapbook propped upright against a chipped white subway-tile backsplash, as if on a kitchen counter altar. The cover art is a collage of deep blues, blood reds, and metallic gold ink, evoking storms of emotion and phases of the moon without using text. In front, a ceramic mug with a tiny painted pentacle sits beside a clutter of ink pens, dried roses, and a cracked porcelain salt shaker shaped like a heart. Warm under-cabinet lighting creates sharp highlights on glossy splatters and casts long, dramatic shadows across the counter. The shallow depth of field blurs the tiles and background objects into a soft bokeh, focusing attention on the chapbook’s raw texture and the emotionally charged, domestic-magical setting, suggesting an art therapist’s kitchen transformed into a sacred creative space.
An overhead photographic shot of an open poetry chapbook lying on a stained, paint-splattered canvas drop cloth, its pages filled with dense black lines and abstract smudges that hint at intense writing without forming readable words. Surrounding the book are symbolic objects: a silver wedding ring resting in a shallow ceramic dish, a bundle of charred incense sticks, and a black candle melted into a tangled wax sculpture. Faintly visible tattoo-style flash drawings—snakes, crescent moons, and protective sigils—are sketched on loose paper nearby. Soft, diffused overcast light from above mutes the colors while amplifying texture, creating a gritty yet intimate atmosphere. The composition is centered but asymmetrical, with sharp focus on the chapbook spine and a gentle vignette around the edges, embodying a bold, unapologetic artistic voice.

Inside This Spellbound Body

Poems on mania, marriage, ink, and witchcraft stitched into a raw little book. Flip through the preview, then choose your format to download, order a copy, or gift it.

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A photographic close-up of a contact-space vignette: an open, blank notebook waiting beside a finished poetry chapbook whose cover art resembles layered tattoo flash and watercolor storms. The two rest on a dark wooden desk, ringed by a circle of small crystal points, a smudging bundle burned down to ash, and a vintage rotary phone with the receiver off the hook, its coiled cord snaking toward the viewer. A kitchen sink in the blurred background gleams under cool, bluish evening light spilling through a window, while a single red candle near the notebook provides a warm counter-glow. Shot from a three-quarter angle with shallow depth of field, the focus is on the space between the notebook and chapbook, suggesting an invitation to reach out and connect. The mood is intimate, witchy, and provocatively open.
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