Smoke me like a Prayer (Salt me when I burn)

Smoke Me Like a Prayer (Salt Me When I Burn) is a collection of poems about intensity learning how to stay without imploding, and love learning how to hold without consuming. The work moves through heartbreak, family, friendship, desire, rage, environmental grief, and the quiet violence of modern life, seen through a neurodivergent lens that feels everything too much and too fast. These poems do not offer healing as spectacle or redemption as reward. They insist on honesty over comfort, recognition over repair, and presence over fantasy. This book is not about getting better. It is about learning how to remain.