I Thought We Were Doing All That

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, I discovered there were rules nobody had bothered to explain.

Not the important ones.

The invisible ones.

The ones people carry quietly until they suddenly decide they apply to you.

This collection isn't about coming out.

It's about growing up on a small island, accidentally being different, and discovering that other people seemed far more confused by it than I ever was.

A series of poems about observation, contradiction, judgment, identity, and the strange realization that the world rarely ends when people insist it will.

Mostly, it's about continuing to exist while everyone else treats your existence like breaking news.