ADDRESSING ANXIETY AND CREATING COMMUNITY WITH THE SHY CATERPILLAR

By The Shy Caterpillar

On Jan. 9, 2026, I decided to drop off four illustrated, poetic postcards at a student help desk at the University of Waterloo. It was a daunting experience for someone with social anxiety, and I’m still not fully sure why that day felt right.  

The poem on those first cards, which I still vividly remember, involved a disagreement between my mind, which wanted to […]

https://www.communityedition.ca/queer-space-addressing-anxiety-and-creating-community-with-the-shy-caterpillar/

Fort Pulaski: Ghosts in the Brickwork

I I hear them before I see them. Not ghosts. Not phantoms. Not pale figures wandering the corridors. Something worse. Something real. The fort remembers. Click for full poem with fort images.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/fort-pulaski-ghosts-in-the-brickwork/

Light and Shadow Meet in the Same Frame

The air still carried that unmistakable scent of wet earth, river water, and old brick. Puddles reflected pieces of a sky that couldn't quite decide whether it was finished raining or ready to begin again.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/light-and-shadow-meet-in-the-same-frame/

Savannah After Midnight

The enslaved souls whose grief still lingers in the mortar and timber, woven into the foundations of beauty built at a terrible cost. History is not buried here. It breathes. Layer upon layer, like sediment at the bottom of a dark river.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/savannah-after-midnight/

Friday 19th, Agatan Saks in #concert at cc #Belgica, Dendermonde. The 'lunchoncert' starts at 12h00. #Poetic #indie #jazz. Welcome!

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Check it out:

https://www.ccbelgica.be/nl/programma/agatan-sax/

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The Primal Scream

Raw. Volatile. Possessed. A sound ripping from my throat like something ancient trying to escape my body. The throat chakra opening in chaos, begging for release, for help, for silence….. 🔗 to read on.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/the-primal-scream/

Somewhere Between Midnight and Three, They Call to Me

Somewhere between midnight and three, while the rest of the world sleeps peacefully beside the living, I sit awake with the forgotten— letting the dead speak through me one poem at a time. Click the 🔗 to read on.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/somewhere-between-midnight-and-three-they-call-to-me/

Somewhere Between Midnight and Three, They Call to Me

Somewhere between midnight and three, while the rest of the world sleeps peacefully beside the living, I sit awake with the forgotten— letting the dead speak through me one poem at a time. Click th…

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