CHAPBOOK - 
Several years ago, I started writing a collection of poems. The project feels both intensely personal, but also like an offering of my own journey into queerness, as the poems dive into my experiences of love and heartbreak, both past and present. 
 
Love does not present itself as a positive fixture in this collection. These poems navigate the tender aches and complexity of love. Who I could love, and then, as I stepped further into my sense of self, how I could love and be loved. How I could be heartbroken and how I could give and take pain in the name of love. 
 
Heartbreak is an isolating experience but I hope in sharing mine to speak to a larger universal experience that humans go through. 
 
While I’ve arranged the collection chronologically, it can be read in any order.