<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>shelf life</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;gathers poems and small essays that explore grief recovery and the fragile vessels that hold us. Written in the wake of the author's father's death the book invites readers into moments of clarity ache memory and unexpected mercy. This quiet resonant debut reflects on what we keep what leaks and what inevitably returns to us-and how we learn to carry what remains.</span></p>