My 29 Nevers

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 offer neat resolutions. Instead, it lingers in the in-between—where longing coexists with anger, where intimacy is both a refuge and a risk, where the body remembers even when the mind wants to forget. Nature, mirrors, houses, storms, and constellations recur as symbols of fracture and becoming, grounding deeply personal experiences in something vast and shared.

My 29 Nevers is for readers who have lost themselves, questioned their own reality, and still reached for connection. It is an archive of breaking—but also of listening, blooming, and choosing to remain.