Essay
The Right to Not Respond
Silence is not absence—it is what you offer when holding space feels more honest than filling it.
Dean Bowman
Literary author exploring silence, memory, and meaning through essays, poetry, and memoir fiction. Writing from the quiet in-between.
Poetry
remnant 残滓
Three lines. Two worlds. A trace that never left.
Essay
The Sovereign Territory of Creation
How and why I work is my own country, with its own topography.
News
A brief note on returning
A quiet return after a decade away.
Poetry
Dream Garden of Unknown Skye
A surreal journey through collapsing galaxies and sentient flowers—this cosmic poem blurs wonder and dread.
Poetry
Pretense and Innocence
Desire and disguise against a Kyoto spring night that lingered beyond reason.
Poetry
Asleep
A brief, atmospheric poem about perception and illusion.