Michael Kocinski's Journal

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...

My mother died on January 19, 2017, nine days before her 64th birthday. My dad asked me to write something to say at her funeral because I&#...