Galaxy: poems from a shared stretch of road

What happens to love after the people inside it begin walking in different directions?Galaxy is a collection of poems about recognition, intimacy, grief, and the strange permanence of having been known by another person.Moving from the first gravity of two lives finding each other, through the ordinary architecture of building a life together, and eventually into the quiet work of letting go, these poems trace a relationship not by asking whether it lasted, but by asking what it meant while it did.Stars collapse and leave their elements behind. Light continues travelling long after its source is gone. People, too, leave pieces of themselves in the lives they touch.At its heart, Galaxy is about that residue: the photographs, tattoos, ordinary mornings, private languages, and small acts of being witnessed that remain after two paths diverge.It is a book about loving deeply without requiring love to last forever in order to have been real.About carrying something forward without trying to get it back.And about being grateful that, among billions of people moving through an impossibly large universe, there was a stretch of road where two lives happened to walk beside each other.