Poems. Fragments. Soft Wreckage.
This collection explores grief, love, identity, and the weight of the world we’re living in. The poems move through loss, political unease, quiet devotion, and the everyday moments that become anchors when everything else feels unsteady.
What you’ll find here is honest, unpolished emotion written from the middle of things, not the end of them. These pieces don’t offer answers. They offer recognition, clarity, and a place to breathe.
Reader Reflections
This poetry collection is a true Gem!
V paints beautiful pictures with words, pulling you into a world filled with deep feelings. Each poem flows like music, making you feel everything from love to loss. The language is simple yet powerful, allowing you to connect with the emotions on a personal level. It’s a heartfelt journey that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.Reviewed by Semina
If you love poetry that speaks to the soul, this is a must-read!
V’s poetry feels real in a way that hits you quietly at first and then settles deeper the more you sit with it. She writes about love, loss and politics with an honesty that never feels forced, just a clear sense of truth. There’s a softness in her work, but also a strong backbone; she can move from tender memories to sharp social commentary without ever losing that unique voice. What I love most is how V notices the small details everyone else walks past and turns them into something meaningful. Reading her words feels like being invited into someone’s world for a moment, and you come away seeing your own a little differently.
Reviewed by Coral
V writes the kind of poetry that doesn’t just tell a story – it makes you feel it. It stays with you quietly, returning in moments when you least expect it, the way real grief and real love do.
Reviewed by Tink
V’s poetry has this classic timeless quality, like so many old poets, but with a fresh, modern vibe that’s woven through the lines. She uses juxtaposition so naturally, describing people who are both gentle and fierce, quiet, and unapologetic. There’s a warmth in her writing. A deep sense of yearning that makes her poems feel comforting, romantic, and incredibly human.
Cedar Paws especially stayed with me. Anyone who’s lost a beloved pet will relate to this poem instantly. It brought tears to my eyes.
V writes about grief with such clarity. Lines like “Some kinds of loneliness don’t scream, they stand barefoot in the kitchen, wash a single plate with two hands” hit hard, capturing how empty a home can feel after loss.
Another line I really loved was “they see your manufactured light, but not the electricity it cost you.” Her metaphors land so perfectly.
We Will Not Go Back is also powerful, full of liberation, rebellion, and hope. It’s the kind of message the world needs to here more of right now.
Overall, V’s storytelling is honest & emotional. Her poems read beautifully and I feel certain so many will resonate with them, just as I did.
Reviewed by Harlow
This collection feels like being invited into V’s private home, where grief and love co-exist in harmony showing us that grief isn’t linear but a multifaceted landscape that changes with the light. It’s incredibly personal and relatable, as if whispered over a cup of coffee.
V’s language is tender without being fragile, and precise without losing its softness. Every metaphor feels lived-in, every line break considered — a quiet choreography that mirrors the ebb and flow of healing.
Reviewed by Marte
I’ve read poetry over the years, and most of it doesn’t land for me. V’s does. What grabbed me immediately is how honest this collection is about grief and loss, and what it actually takes to keep existing after something breaks you open.
There’s no romanticizing nor any performance of suffering. These poems are written from inside the hurt of someone who is trying to do real internal work. The grief pieces in particular feel lived and not stylized. There’s actual psychological insight into what loss does to your brain, how it shifts your instincts, your orientation and the way loss makes you move through the world.
Her writing is sharp, sensory and specific. There’s a line about loneliness being in “a kitchen at 3 AM, when you realize you’ve been holding a glass of water for twenty minutes but forgot to drink.” That kind of observation is impossible to fake and it only It comes from experience.
What I appreciate most is that the poems trust the reader. They don’t spoon feed meaning or ever over explain the moment. They give you the image and let you sit with it and let your mind make the connections. That confidence comes from someone who knows exactly what she’s doing and who has felt that from their soul.
Reviewed by Ashley
I loved being able to read poetry that was not only incredibly beautiful, but also deeply relatable. The collection took me through a journey of love and loss, in all the ways you can experience those.
With vivid imagery that pulls you in completely, I am left with one simple feeling: hope.
Reading through the collection, there were moments where I felt like a fist had a strong grip around my heart. The ache stemmed, at times from being transported back to memories of loss, of remembering what it was like to feel numb and like you are not quite yourself.
While several of the poems spoke to me on intimate levels, Folded Grief and Other Rituals stayed with me for a long time after reading it. It is easy to focus on the pain that comes with putting yourself out there, for not feeling quite like you’re receiving what you deserve, but to me it’s about love in it’s strongest and purest form. It’s about love for yourself, your own worth and stating that out loud. Unafraid and proud in the best way.
Reviewed by Caroline
These are beautifully written. V has such a clear, visceral voice, and each piece carries its own truth and vulnerability. Some, like We Will Not Go Back, are especially haunting in the best way.
Reviewed by Jacob
V’s poetry does an outstanding job of giving language to the spaces after: after love, after loss, after hopes have been dashed and belief systems obliterated. V has mastered with laser precision and specificity how grief is something lived daily, and can also be politically charged. Despite the weight of this reality, V tackles this concept with a balance of tenderness and gravity. These poems feel especially timely, as she explores the themes of betrayal and how we have to remain present in spite of that circumstance. V’s work lingers, never once sacrificing her voice, and is deeply felt in the narrow of one’s bones, quietly humming in the spirit afterwards.
Reviewed by Sól
There hasn’t been anything else I have experienced reading in a long time that got me right up against the feelings I don’t speak about often. Pain, loss, coping… the beauty in that and so on. These words are often lost on the mouths that are oversaturated with the sweet addiction of the numb happy pill.
Saying I am grateful doesn’t fully express what I feel, but reading their work really hit home. The pain in the memory of love changes you and reminds you of what matters. When I read each poem, I sat with it a long while, then took the time again to tell and show those around me that I love them. To spend time and to remember that tomorrow is not promised. Even though many say it is a process, you never really finish trying to make it through the aftermath of death. Each day hits a little different and there are sometimes just long aching days where all you can do is barely exist.
Reviewed by Aiden