A Dictionary Of Love

A Dictionary of Love is a poetry collection written from the threshold of feelings that resist naming—emotions that dissolve when defined, expand when held, and persist through uncertainty.Born from a need to hold on to life through witnessing, through keeping a record, these poems listen to love’s fractures and voids; the ways it both builds and dismantles us.These poems were written while living.At times they leaned into silence, at times into grief, at times into a rushing river.They move forward by trusting rhythm more than meaning, gaps more than explanation, inviting the reader to listen rather than interpret.This book opens to those who find themselves at a turning point–at the edge of a relationship, a loss, a period of waiting. Rather than telling the reader what this is, it offers a space in which one can form an inner dictionary.