Payments of Living

By Anthony Wayne Owens

Payments of Living is a collection of poetry and prose written in the in-between, between grief and acceptance, between memory and forgetting, between the person I was and the person I am trying to become. These are the costs no one talks about. The quiet moments where the world moves on without you, and you're left sitting alone with your thoughts and whatever weight you wake up with.

This is not just a book of poetry and prose; it's a lived document, a ledger of personal cost, written in spiritual currency: loss, memory, fear, longing, survival, and resilience. It captures what it means to be alive in a world that often feels indifferent to that fact. This book reads like the poetic equivalent of a long night drive, one where you're alone with your thoughts, passing by memories, regrets, lost futures, and a few brief flashes of stars. It's haunting. But it also feels like it had to be written, which gives it strength.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGWR55LZ
• ISBN13: 9798291189696
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"