One Before the First

<p><strong>For readers of confessional poetry heartbreak prose and raw emotional memoirs </strong> <em>The One Before The First</em> is a raw unflinching collection about first love obsessive longing and the grief that follows it.</p><p></p><p>Through bruised reflections and visceral imagery it traces the slow descent of someone awakening to intimacy-only to unravel in the aftermath of a not-quite relationship.</p><p></p><p>This is the haunting of almosts: the texts that meant too much the nights you couldn't sleep the illusion of being seen and the brutal clarity that follows disillusionment.</p><p></p><p>A poetic autopsy of someone who gave you fragments yet somehow still took everything. For anyone who's ever loved the one who came before the first.</p>