Islanding: Poetry

Islanding is a chapbook of lyric fragments that moves through solitude, belonging, and the shifting emotional geography of place. Rooted in the rhythms of coastal life, these poems trace the quiet, sometimes uneasy act of becoming an island—separate, exposed, and deeply connected all at once.

Across spare, attentive language, the collection explores what it means to live at the edges: of land and sea, self and other, memory and moment. The poems dwell in ferry crossings, shoreline silences, weather systems, and the small intimacies of observation, where distance becomes a form of knowing.

At once contemplative and visceral, Islanding invites the reader into a practice of attention—where isolation is not emptiness, but a shifting field of relation, resonance, and return.

For readers drawn to place-based poetry, quiet intensity, and the emotional textures of landscape, this chapbook offers a brief but resonant meditation on how we are shaped by the places we inhabit—and the ones that refuse to let us go.