Love & Loss
What we hold, what we give up, what stays after.
31 pieces
Frozen in Time
On old photographs, forgotten lives, and the strange tenderness of remembering people you've outgrown.
I Knew It Was You
A haiku on recognition — the moment you meet someone and feel certain you've already known them somewhere before.
Until I Met You
Three lines. The whole shape of meeting someone who rewrites what you thought you knew.
To My Dear Friend
A letter in verse to someone who isn't here anymore — and a promise about what gets carried forward.
They Don't Even Know
On the secondhand weight of someone else's pain — and how care quietly carries it.
Bond Impossible to Break
On the soulmate as fresh air — and the kind of love that arrives feeling like physics.
Where Time Stands Still
A small ask of the world — to sweep us off our feet again, to a place where love can begin.
Many Soulmates
A four-line reframe on the word *soulmate* — and the quiet permission inside it.
I'll See You Later
Three lines for the friendships that never quite closed and never quite stayed.
Love in Spring
Four lines for the kind of love that arrives like a season.
She Moved Me
On the people we'll never see again — and the way they keep teaching us how to be.
Oh Oliver
A small love letter to the dog who keeps walking into the room and rearranging the day.
Meu Amor
A coffee-shop morning, a map on the wall, and a quiet decision that the where doesn't matter as much as the who.
Two Souls
On the love that arrives feeling like discovery — and the promise to be the one who shows up.
In Your Corner
A letter in verse to the people I love — even the ones I haven't talked to in awhile.
Eu Ainda Choro
A bilingual haiku — three lines about the heart that holds love and tears in the same hand.
Olhando no Mar
A bilingual haiku — a love seen first in Portuguese, then in English.
Connect with My Dad
On finding the keys, finding the song, and finding — late but not too late — a way back to the person who taught you both.
A Spiral
On the version of love that doubles as a wound — and the cycle it traps you in.
Where We Need to Go
On wanting someone you love to grow with you — and the hard math when the paces don't match.
Know the Difference
On the hard-earned skill of telling real love from the things that wear its name.
Loving So Deeply
Three lines for the kind of love that arrives feeling like a return.
I Like Your Weird
On the particular kind of love that's specifically pointed at the parts of someone nobody else has bothered to notice.
Why Now, Why Me
On finally meeting someone who actually means it — and the strange suspicion that follows.
A Love Sublime
Four lines — the smallest possible draft of a wedding vow.
Past This Life
Three lines for the love that doesn't expire when the rest of it does.
Love Supreme
On the long shadow of being told you weren't enough — and the small dream of believing in love anyway.
Cosmic Connection
On the love that arrives without an explanation — and the small wisdom of not asking too many questions.
Without You by My Side
Four short stanzas for the love that turns the impossible possible — and the absence that turns everything to nothing.
I Think That's What Love Is
On the small re-orientation when someone else's emotional weather becomes part of yours.
Speak Freely
On the conversation you wish you'd had — and the small lesson we keep failing to learn from it.