Some stories aren’t told in chapters. They’re written in moments, memories, and the spaces between words.
In Past Tense: Breaking the Circle is a deeply personal poetry collection that chronicles five years of an unconventional, long-distance relationship between two poets living on opposite sides of the world.
What began as a shared love of writing evolved into an extraordinary creative connection, blurring the lines between friendship, emotional intimacy, artistic collaboration, and the complicated realities of their separate lives.
Through poetry, wordplay, vulnerability, humor, and heartbreak, the collection follows a relationship that existed largely through written exchanges. Each piece captures another moment in a continuing story, revealing how two people could become intimately familiar without sharing an ordinary life together.
More than a collection of individual poems, In Past Tense is a story told through poetry. Its pages explore the power of language to create connection, the emotional consequences of unspoken expectations, and the difficulty of defining a relationship that refuses to fit conventional descriptions.
It’s a love story about words, the people behind them, and everything that happened between the lines.
Originally published in February 2022, In Past Tense: Breaking the Circle is now available in paperback and Kindle ebook editions.
