Chains

CHAINS Some bonds are iron. Some are invisible. All of them hold. Chains is a collection of ten poems selected from the first four volumes of the MortusBard Twitch Sessions - live, unscripted poetry written in real time before a public audience, one word at a time, without revision or premeditation. These poems share a single obsession: confinement. The cages we build, the cages built for us, the chains we accept voluntarily and the ones we never see coming.
From economic servitude to digital surveillance, from addiction to the slow erosion of freedom, these poems trace the shape of what holds us in place - and what it costs to stay there. Erik M. Bonthron writes as MortusBard, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division and a poet working in North Carolina. His work draws from the War Poets tradition and the witness obligation - the understanding that some things must be said because they happened.
Chains is an introduction to the Twitch Sessions. The full collections - Volumes I through IV - are available individually