First published 2021
The speakers in these poems move through intimate spaces where desire meets uncertainty. In hospital rooms and basement corners, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, they grapple with fundamental questions about agency and longing. Blood mingles with birdsong as these voices examine what drives them forward and what holds them back. Rain falls on moments of wanting while screens flicker with digital connections that both unite and isolate. Each poem carries the weight of what came before while reaching toward an uncertain future. The collection traces how bodies endure and break, how ordinary moments contain their own mysteries. These are poems of aftermath, where ambivalence becomes a form of wisdom and the everyday world reveals its hidden depths.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, poetry, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: ambivalence, everyday-world
Setting: Hospital, Basement, Paris, America
Period: Aftermath
70 pages · Paperback · Dedalus Press