April
The road curved back before it was realised
Something in the air recognised first
not as now, but as before,
before the noise reshaped everything into something harder to hold.
The ground did not question what stood upon it.
It held without needing to understand,
firm in a way that asked nothing in return.
Movement carried a different logic —
not lighter, but settled,
as though weight had finally found where it belonged.
And still, something remained,
a low and constant presence beneath it all.
A quiet displacement,
unspoken, unmarked
and somehow, sufficient
March
Near or far
The fancy grows
A snowballing fervour
Contained and mediated
Like everything
Not allowed to lose oneself
You just can’t
Can’t put language to it
Lossless, lifeless
But the eagerness is abundant
A dim lit ride
A gaze
Intense demonic stare
Oh it’s you again
#explore
Feb 2026
See the image there,
The vision in the mind, cast through the thought of an imprint.
It contains the moment of how you feel now, reminiscent of a time before.
There is joy there, there is knowing there, there is electric there.
As it’s cast, does it adhere? Does it hold?
Your charge that once powered rooms - is it felt?
Hopefully it’s here forever now.
We have found you at last.
January 2026
Futures tessellating,
shuffled into place without instruction.
Calibration without witness,
operations running
between signal and hush.
Unravelling arrives on schedule —
not failure, but recalibration.
Structure thins
to make room for its next version.
Reassurance wavers,
becomes nutrient,
becomes sought.
Others linger at the edges,
nodding along,
satisfied with the surface reading
even though it now hurts —
as if the whole thing were fixed,
already accounted for,
the plan they all knew.
They only track the part that shows.
Recalibration continues
The glow doesn’t hum now.
It flickers like poor reception.
A face without anchor.
A presence too fragmented to stain.
Still, I show up in myself
like clockwork forgetting why,
long enough to be seen through
and mistaken for being.
- At @jeanlouiecastillo latest show, photo by @marktgoddard
Trying my hand at some creative writing again, it’s been a while since I added some deeper thinking my Instagram posts, but I’ve done it for years, this one acts as part 2 to a previous post.
