Missing Confessions
Poems written between falling apart and learning, slowly, how to put myself back together over three quiet years.
“I will love again and again,
for no love is given in vain.” from Phantom, written in the fourth period
These pages hold about three years of handwriting turned into type. I've split them into six periods, though I didn't plan it that way — looking back, each one really was its own season, not just a batch of writing.
The earliest poems came out of a relationship that felt like a slow drowning. The ones after that came from grief, from silence, from a few people who were kind to me when I didn't expect it. The most recent ones came from something closer to peace.
What follows is a small selection — the poems I'd hand you first if we only had a few minutes. There are forty-eight more further down, still waiting.
Thank you for reading any of it at all.
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The collection comes in two halves — you can read either one on its own, or both together for less than buying them apart.
Genesis
n. — the origin; where something begins
Where it started. A relationship that felt like drowning, a grief I didn't know how to hold, and the poems that came out of trying to survive both.
Includes the poems you've already read here, plus everything else from this half.
Metanoia
n. — a transformative change of heart or mind
Learning to say it out loud. The poems written on the other side of that grief, through to the most recent ones — still honest, but reaching for something gentler.
Includes the poems you've already read here, plus everything else from this half.
The full collection
Both halves, in order, exactly as they were written — along with my notes on where each poem came from. The whole story, start to finish.
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Commissions
I write poems for other people too — for someone you love, a moment you want kept, or an occasion that needs more than a card.
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How it works
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