How the Ocean Learned to Burn - For the girl who mistook bruises for fingerprints

She met a boy who made the sky feel closer. And then he left without breaking anything but her. How The Ocean Learned to Burn is a novel told entirely in poems about love that felt like home until it starts to hurt more than it heals. It's about late-evening calls almosts that nearly became forevers and a girl who burned herself hoping he'd stay for the warmth. This isn't a love story. It's the ache that lingers in its ruins. It's what's left behind after he forgets to turn back and she learns how to lie with a smile. After the sky opens and she's the one who disappears in the flames.