"Soft and Warm" is not a conventional poetry anthology, but a decomposing psychological landscape disguised as intimate free verse, a book that feels less written than exhaled, as though the speaker is trying to survive himself through language. Moving between confession, hallucination, diary, and prayer, the collection drifts through apartments, churches, train stations, bodies, and ruined relationships in search of tenderness within a spiritually exhausted world. Exploring shame, addiction, intimacy, masculinity, memory, and emotional survival, the poems revolve around the impossibility of remaining soft in a cold, performative, and predatory reality. Warmth appears only in fragile flashes, and because of that, those moments feel almost sacred. "Soft and Warm" ultimately reads like a prolonged attempt to remain human after humans scarred everything. Written, designed, illustrated, and published alone. 128 pages, 2024.
