Permanence

by E.L. Lea

Permanence is a lyrical, genre-blurring collection that explores identity, memory, and the quiet ache of being alive. With echoes of Descartes and Hume, E.L. Lea crafts poetic fragments and surreal narratives that question what it means to know anything at all—let alone oneself.

Across these pages, love resists reason, solitude becomes scripture, and even the smallest kindness aches with significance. Philosophical yet tender, abstract yet intimate, Permanence invites readers into a shifting landscape of thought and feeling, where reality hums just beneath metaphor, and grief lingers like static.

For readers drawn to the melancholic surrealism of David Lynch, the philosophical depth of Iris Murdoch, or the poetic clarity of Ocean Vuong, Permanence is both a mirror and a veil—a haunting, intimate meditation on what it means to exist at all.

89 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2025

About the author

E. L. Lea is a homeschooling mom of one boy and four girls.
She has been married to her soul mate, Omar, since January 2000. She enjoys reading, writing, soap making, all things aromatherapy, and Twizzlers- lots of Twizzlers. She dreams of one day owning a small homestead, raising some chickens along with her children, growing a large garden, and eventually taking a dream vacation to Greece. It isn't too far fetched to think you could happen upon her and her husband having a conversation about religion, political conspiracies, a zombie apocalypse, or gangster movies.