The Stillness After
The Stillness After is a collection of poems that inhabit the quiet space between devastation and renewal the moment when the fire has gone out, and a man stands alone with what remains. It is a book about endurance, truth, and the haunting calm that follows chaos.
These poems trace the anatomy of survival: the silence after shouting, the ache after love, the clarity that comes only when everything else has burned away. They speak in a male voice stripped of pretence, rhythmic, brutal, and tender confronting the ghosts of guilt, loyalty, and loss. Each piece moves through the wreckage of intimacy and identity, searching for the kind of peace that doesn't arrive with applause, but with acceptance.
The Stillness After is not about victory; it's about aftermath. It explores what it means to rebuild without illusion, to find beauty in the ruins, and to stand in the quiet knowing that survival itself is a form of grace.
Written in stark, lyrical language, this collection captures the rhythm of endurance and the sound of loss; the stillness that burns the lies out, and the silence that teaches what remains when the fire is done.
