Phantom Anchor

Phantom Anchor is a short  poem comic anthology about thoughts and experiences that stay behind long after the fact. 

Includes:

• 10 poems (9 written in 2026 and 1 revised from 2025) and sci-fi leaning visual interpretations of the poems across different art styles depicting human and athropomorphic characters.
• 31 pages + 1 Title cover in full color
• No AI was used in this work.

Poem line up:

• Nearly Bought (about Asian transmasc objectification)
• Halves (about bigender dysphoria/mental health)
• Overcompensating (about a circus-themed mental burn out)
• Lure (about the struggles of short-form video addiction)
• Ode to a pet frog (about reminiscing a pet frog that passed away)
• Chronic (about a sci-fi themed metaphor for  chronic pain)
• Pendulum (about a metaphor for chronic illness, narrated by an italian greyhound)
• Running from Inheritance (about trying to outrun health issues that were triggered eventually by time)
• Inherited (about finding acceptance of one's health and past traumas)
• Asynchronous Trust (about honoring long distance friendships)

Content Warning:

• grief (pet death), metaphors for bigender dysphoria, transmasc objectification, neurodivergent-related struggles, chronic pain and chronic illness
• mild themes of physical transfiguration are featured often