the afterglow

The Afterglow is a lush, intimate exploration of grief in all its forms-grief for a lover, for a future that never arrived, for the versions of ourselves we lose along the way. Through six stages-daydreams, fury, revenge, desperation, graveyard, and peace-Caitlin Kemme traces the emotional fallout of a love that once felt fated, only to fracture under betrayal, loss, and the quiet violences that linger long after the ending. These poems move from the haze of fantasies to the blaze of anger,...