Gabriele Micozzi is an Italian writer working across poetry, fiction, and experimental text-image forms. His work explores the points at which language, power, identity, and institutional systems collide. His writing has appeared internationally in Asymptote, BALLAST, Space and Time Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, Heavy Feather Review, The Literary Hatchet, and The Ecological Citizen. He lives in the Marche region of Italy, where he writes about the mechanisms that attempt to classify human beings—and what remains unclassified.

The poet/artist about this work: The series follows one life through three documents that attempt—and fail—to contain it: a psychological assessment of an adolescent assembling himself from borrowed icons; the working notes of an adult divided between management and poetry; and a visionary last will that distributes no possessions, only permissions, doubts, and unfinished transformations.

The bureaucratic form is not simply the setting of the work: it is its antagonist. Each panel uses administrative language to measure something that resists measurement.