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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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the beats of our hearts
can overwhelm
the smallest exchanges

a glance

a pause

your hand
almost touching mine

almost

and yet
my chest
does not know
the difference

sometimes
love is not loud

it is a tremor

and still
it moves everything

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