After the Bird Is Named

After the Bird Is Named is a collection of poems concerned with what endures after recognition after love is understood, after loss has settled, after naming has altered what can be said. Moving through waiting, withheld speech, and disciplined longing, these poems attend to silence not as absence but as a moral condition. Grief, memory, and affection are rendered with restraint, shaped by attention rather than disclosure. Refusing consolation or closure, the book remains with what is unresolved, and asks what it means to live patiently, attentively inside that remainder.