My 29 Nevers: Maybe, I never need to name it, only feel it... quietly, endlessly, as it grows.

My 29 Nevers is a poetry collection about survival, and the quiet defiance of continuing to exist.

Moving through themes of queerness, love in its many forms; dissociation, addiction, grief, desire, and healing, these poems trace the interior life of someone learning how to stay—inside their body, inside their memories, inside a world that has often felt unsafe. The "nevers" are not absolutes, but moments: boundaries crossed, versions of the self shed and reclaimed.

This collection does not o...