Alchemy of Beauty

Channeling Sappho's elegiac echoes, these compact poems distill the bitter alchemy of beauty - how ardor curdles into disregard, nectar turns to ash, and even the divine suffers fractures. Each verse crystallizes a moment of subtle sorrow - autumn's encroachment, a hidden blade, love's last breath. Like precious artifacts salvaged from ruins, the poems surface solemn odes from collapse, finding grace notes in life's inevitable decays. Spare yet stirring, the collection bottles the opulent melancholy of faded legends and lost love in bite-sized poems. Let this tiny tome of mythic mini-laments speak softly to your own heart's hidden fissures.

Art by Ann Drew
Words & Layout by Eric Williamson