Half-Light
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Last published Sun, Apr 13, 2025
Half-Light is a collection of poems that live in the in-between-between love and loss, past and present, silence and confession. These pieces don't always have answers, but they have feeling. Soft, sharp, and searching. This book is for anyone learning to exist in the gray, where nothing is certain, but everything is real.
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