The following manuscript blurs distinction between academic research, poetry, fiction, and self-study. Poetic expression is seen as an anchor for self-study, and its purposes are framed as therapeutic. This work is a model for the exploration of themes that are particular, personal, and often subconscious, which the poet codes in the context of poetic expression. Throughout the text, the critical and reflective components of the self-study are elaborated through the voice of the omnipresent narrator. The use of critical narration that complicates the context of discussion is a means of...