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Things I Wrote When You Weren’t Paying Attention is a collection of poetry I began writing in 2016, often while in the company of men who liked my presence more than my depth. The words in these poems weave flits of fantasy, fragments of attention, moments of longing, and the quiet reckonings of a woman refusing to be unseen. They live in the spaces between conversation and observation, desire and reflection, capturing what I noticed, what I felt, and what I held when no one else was watching.

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I wander through these sheets,
scrolling love letters across your flesh,
imprinted —

not to be read,
but to be felt

You kiss constellations
only I can translate,
a quiet current
carrying me
through oceans of emerging stars

we orbit,
breath threading breath,
hands tracing the invisible
pull of tides answering the moon

I slip like moonlight
over water,
and in the hush of everything,
I lose myself —
only to find us
woven together
in a language
older than memory

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