nickettysplitt
Boy, Unarmored: Things I Don't Say Out Loud is a collection of deeply personal poems about what it means to live honestly in your own skin.
These pages move through ordinary days and private battles - work stress and quiet ambition, depression and resilience, love and loss, longing and healing. Some poems explore sexuality and masculinity. Others sit in grief. Some linger in softness. Some push back against it.
At its core, this book isn't about one identity. It's about being human - complicated, contradictory, tired, hopeful, afraid, brave.
Written without armor and without apology, these poems come from late nights, early mornings, breakrooms, car rides, and the in-between spaces where we actually live.
If you've ever carried more than you let on, this collection is for you.