Category: Unshielded

• The Writer I Could Disown

  

  Over a decade ago I started writing. It was a chaotic time, and what I wrote reflected that. High-emotion poetry. Passion and heartbreak. Love in all its turns. There was truth in it, no doubt. I can look back and see it as an honest reflection of where I was. It had a veneer, though.…

  Rob Wyatt

  August 23, 2026

  Held Ground, Prose, Unshielded

• What Deserves Fidelity

  

  Virtue begins where the carved word gives way to weight.

  Rob Wyatt

  July 28, 2026

  Held Ground, Prose, Unshielded

  embodied, endurance, honesty, loss, poetic prose, virtue

• Finding Light

  

  The room did not have to remember what it could finally hold. A collaboration with EC (@erroneouschoices)

  Rob Wyatt

  June 15, 2026

  Collaborations, Unshielded

  collaboration, connection, desire, EC, intimacy, longing, love, poetic prose, poetry, want

• The Ordinary Fact of Remaining

  

  “Weariness can snatch away even pain itself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche A Collaboration with EC (@erroneouschoices)

  Rob Wyatt

  May 28, 2026

  Collaborations, Prose, Unshielded

  cost, EC, endurance, fatigue, grace, journey, love, poetic prose, quiet, scars, silence, stillness, violence, Weariness

• Memorial Day

  

  Part of me never came home. Part of me never left.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 25, 2026

  Prose, Unshielded

  army, cost, endurance, honesty, journey, loss, memory, patriotism, poetic prose, regret, sacrifice, service, war

• The Bourbon Worked Anyway

  

  Time did not slow to match the size of my grief.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 21, 2026

  Prose, Unshielded

  bourbon, grief, introspection, longing, memory, ordinary life, poetic prose, reflection, time

• Before I Remember

  

  There are mornings the body wakes before reality does

  Rob Wyatt

  May 18, 2026

  Poems, Unshielded

  connection, grief, intimacy, life, longing, loss, love, poetry, quiet, regret, silence, want