grenade

a raw and unflinching dissection of a love that shattered like a grenade-

laughton j. collins, jr. maps the explosive aftermath of connection and loss in this piercing collection of poetry-from the intimate silence between two souls to the hollowed-out echoes of faith and memory, these verses explore the shrapnel left behind: love as both salvation and destruction, god as both absent and monstrous, and the self as a ghost haunting its own life-

grenade is not a quiet elegy but a detonation-a ...