emmapatinios
I've always wanted to write a book. Not just a book, but this book - a collection of words, moments, and feelings that have lived inside me for longer than I can remember. Poetry has always been my way of turning what's too big, too messy, or too quiet to say aloud into something that can exist on a page.
This book is my attempt to capture the raw, the intimate, the fleeting, and the permanent all at once. Each poem is a small piece of me, a thought, a memory, a feeling that I couldn't keep to myself. Writing them has been as much a journey for me as I hope reading them will be for you.
I hope you enjoy my poetry as much as I enjoy writing it. I hope it lingers, surprises you, unsettles you, or comforts you - sometimes all at once. And most of all, I hope it reminds you that even in our most private moments, we are never truly alone.
Emma Angelique Patinios