Missing You

Abstract

Missing You is a collection of poems that moves through simultaneous narratives of familial longing and grief, wrestling with God, searching for self-stasis and love, and living with depression––which covers the speaker’s world with an unsettled layer of dust. The poems are childhood stories, prayers, wishes, memories that can’t be forgiven. They often appear in contained forms of couplets or quatrains, other times the sonnet or the ghazal, setting boundaries for their shifting subjects. These poems exist in the curve of questions, looking out at what’s been lost and found, hoping to find somewhere, however unstable, to rest.