The Conditions of Proximity: Poems

By MM Williams

In The Conditions of Proximity, MM Williams offers a lyrical sequence of poems concerned not with grand declarations, but with the smallest shifts by which intimacy is formed, altered, and withdrawn.

These poems examine what occurs before anything is spoken plainly: the pause before a name is said, the hesitation inside a gesture, the quiet recalibration of a body no longer certain of its place. Across a series of restrained, precise, and emotionally charged pieces, Williams traces the invisible architecture of human closeness-how presence is permitted, how distance begins, and how meaning accumulates in what remains unresolved.

Attentive to touch, silence, posture, breath, and the subtle asymmetries of desire, The Conditions of Proximity is a meditation on perception, longing, and the fragile structures through which one person comes to matter to another.

Written in language both intimate and exacting, this collection lingers in the space between what is felt and what can be confirmed-where the body understands before the mind does, and where nothing need be named in order to change everything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWN56LVC
• ISBN13: 9798255683741
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"