Before anything happens, there's a moment.
The one where nothing has been said yet
but everything has already changed.
Before We Do... On Purpose is a poetry collection about tension, restraint, and the quiet decisions that lead to something you were never supposed to want this much.
It lives in the space between:
almost and alreadyhesitation and inevitabilityknowing... and choosing it anywayThese poems don't rush.
They don't explain.
They stay.
Through lingering looks, unspoken understanding, and the slow unraveling of control, this collection explores what it feels like to stand too close to something... and not step back.
Not because you can't.
But because you don't want to.
Some things don't happen all at once.
They build.
They repeat.
They stay.
And once they do...
they're harder to leave than you expected.
Written for the spaces between words.