Michael Kocinski's Journal

A few months ago one of my MAGA relatives defended ICE agents as law enforcement who had to wear masks because Antifa threatened to kill the...

This poem is an exercise inspired by the 'First Thought, Best Thought' writing theory of the Beats. I basically just recorded a shi...

Notes from November 7, 2017. A yellow jacket flying around the hood of my car and a bird singing I can't identify, but it's famili...

In August of 2018 I was between jobs, so my wife was working extra shifts and I spent a lot of time with our children. I have, in fact, alwa...

I've always spent a lot of time at libraries. When I was young my grandmother would take me to one or two of the libraries in the Lucas ...

My name is Michael Kocinski. I'm an amateur poet; a citizen scientist; a casual gardener; an advanced doodler; a cook, a father, a husba...

Today I did something I haven't done in many years. I left my house, walked to the woods, and walked right into overgrowth. I didn't...