—que le garçon, dont j’ai rêvé, me parle.
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
THE GHOST OF JESSE JAMES
In 2019, I fell for someone who didn’t think he deserved to be loved, and writing poetry was a way to ease my mind whenever he and I were apart. I hadn’t written a poem in fifteen years, and within four months, I’d written over a hundred.
All the poetry in this collection was inspired by him, and at its heart, it is an expression of faith—evidence that I believe in things unseen and that I hope for the miraculous.