“Rumin8or” is a project by Haydn Larson: these half-fold freebie zines feature the author’s poetry over inky blots and swirls, with strange creatures adorning each cover. Hadyn’s poetry is often reflective and soothing, like a walk thru the woods on a temperate day. In fact, some of my favorite poems presented here — “LOVE”, “Near Water”, and “Within the Heart” — transport you to “jeweled forests” of “silky soft springs” and “pygmi trees”. The rhythmic “Roof Rust” transports us out of the forest and back to the city, and poems like “Castles Built on Sand” and the sly “End of Time” critique our modern age.
“End of Time” is especially successful, critiquing the absurdly corporatized nature of creator-spaces on the Internet, with Hadyn wishing they could just “hand you my / little masterpiece and / you carry it home and / let it vibrate there / ’til the end of time.”

Haydn, you can hand me your little masterpieces anytime.