"Give me all this without the philosophy,
Without the Germanic words sprinkled in,
Laughable to anyone for whom language
is more than an embarrassment,
more than a shameful brick to build
transcendent castles with."

Give Me All This Without

"[D]uring my school years, I had worked hard at not ever letting anyone see me working hard. I even sometimes handed in blank quizzes because it gave me a vague feeling of power over my teachers."

The Studyblr Community and Me

"Oh, 
this my unearthly way across the marsh -
(across the marsh I march) -
where hazy phantoms swirlishly envelop me
just as tendrilbranches choke the bush
(the strangling strands   the dying shrub)."

Ro Nowak

Selected work