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CLOSER: Poems on Love, Rupture, and the Way Back
“I didn’t just read this book. I was interrogated by it. It found the words for the silence I’ve been living in for three years. If you are married, you need this. Now.”
Closeness isn’t something you have. It’s something you build in the ruins.
CLOSER is not a book for people falling in love. It is an intimate collection of poems for the ones who are still in it, but can’t feel each other anymore.
It is for the couples who have become news anchors reporting on the weather instead of lovers sharing a life. For the ones who stand in hardware stores discussing mulch to avoid discussing the distance. For the parents who built a world where their children are safe, but they are never touched.
This collection is a mirror for "The Drift"—that slow, quiet vanishing where "goodnight" becomes a reflex instead of a prayer. It moves through the ache of the disconnect, the weight of the resentment, and finally, the brave, trembling reach back toward one another.
From the viral "sardine breath" kiss that prioritizes hunger over preference , to the bowling alley moments where we remember how to choose each other again, CLOSER is a roadmap out of the roommate phase.
This is Initiatory Poems for the way back.
PERFECT FOR READERS
Love the raw, confessional accessibility of Rupi Kaur but crave the maturity of a long-term partnership.Want the relational intelligence of Esther Perel distilled into lyrical, visceral verse.Are navigating the "roommate phase," relationship anxiety, or the silence that grows between conscious parents.Appreciate the honest, domestic storytelling of Raymond Carver or Ocean Vuong.Do not read this to escape your relationship. Read this to return to it.
Closeness isn’t something you have. It’s something you build in the ruins.
CLOSER is not a book for people falling in love. It is an intimate collection of poems for the ones who are still in it, but can’t feel each other anymore.
It is for the couples who have become news anchors reporting on the weather instead of lovers sharing a life. For the ones who stand in hardware stores discussing mulch to avoid discussing the distance. For the parents who built a world where their children are safe, but they are never touched.
This collection is a mirror for "The Drift"—that slow, quiet vanishing where "goodnight" becomes a reflex instead of a prayer. It moves through the ache of the disconnect, the weight of the resentment, and finally, the brave, trembling reach back toward one another.
From the viral "sardine breath" kiss that prioritizes hunger over preference , to the bowling alley moments where we remember how to choose each other again, CLOSER is a roadmap out of the roommate phase.
This is Initiatory Poems for the way back.
PERFECT FOR READERS
Love the raw, confessional accessibility of Rupi Kaur but crave the maturity of a long-term partnership.Want the relational intelligence of Esther Perel distilled into lyrical, visceral verse.Are navigating the "roommate phase," relationship anxiety, or the silence that grows between conscious parents.Appreciate the honest, domestic storytelling of Raymond Carver or Ocean Vuong.Do not read this to escape your relationship. Read this to return to it.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 8, 2026
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