Together Alone, Fragments & Poems

TOGETHER ALONE: FRAGMENTS & POEMS is a personal yet unifying collection of art, fragments, and poetry meant to help soothe the ache of "these days" and bring us closer to ourselves and others.

TOGETHER ALONE is a conversation between The Self, The Other, and The Everyone as they share the universal experience of connection and separation. TOGETHER ALONE takes an emotionally deep and philosophically honest approach to this axis, letting it all hang out from first same-sex kisses, to confessions and forgiveness.

With rhythmic and precise poetry paired with digitally sketched illustrations and art by Syrah Kai, TOGETHER ALONE guides readers through the darkest parts of their hearts (the parts that are hardest to admit to) and into the shoes of others, highlighting they joys and shadows of being together and being alone. Major themes include connection, solitude, self growth, love lessons, isolation, loss, and forgiveness. A peek inside:

TOGETHER ALONE

No matter how isolated

you think you are

you're not the only one

suffering

we share this experience

the highs and lows

we are always connected

together alone

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WE ARE ON TIME



Maybe we aren't doomed

as a species

of materialism and stupidity

maybe we are right on time

on cue-on key

to break out into the chorus

of our evolution

maybe we aren't anywhere close

to the end

but actually in the middle

of the great eventually

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LONG DISTANCE CALLING

Do you remember those late night

long distance phone calls that used to last

until my sunrise and your midnight?

I'd whisper in your ear

in my lowest pillow voice

and I could practically feel your warmth on mine

how absurd

we connected through a screen

a collapsed world

the distance was a fallacy

you were here

and it was real

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WITH LOVE

inspired by Sharon Olds



I don't know how they do it with

so much love. The union of heart and soul

forever and maybe after

like colliding cosmic bodies bursting into

April showers, with mouths open and fingers

interlaced, skin so sweaty dripping with faith. The drum

of hearts synching, writing all those terrible love songs.

I don't know how they can get so close,

or why they would,

why would you give yourself away completely,

for free?

They are the Lovers I suppose, who love love so much

they make it everywhere they go

They feel so liberated doing it gently in the shower

and a little rougher on the couch.

exchanging saliva in domestic bliss

honey I'm home

give me a kiss