The Education of Jeffrey Wicks | The Closet | Digital Photo Collage | 2026
Jeff has never yet used the word that describes him.
He doesn’t need to.
Every Friday night at the pub he orders the same beer, laughs the loudest, stays the latest. His besties know something he hasn’t said. They stay anyway. They always stay. Jeff has that sway.
Jupiter 3 passes overhead quietly. Empathy sensors don’t require a label to recognize what’s being read. This has been recorded a thousand times across a thousand years. Some things take time.
A man becoming himself — on his own terms, in his own way, — is one of the most beautiful things in the universe.
