Paper Stars

Paper Stars is an anthology of poems about becoming. Written across two decades, these pieces move through love and loss, addiction and recovery, fatherhood, fury, mercy, and the quiet work of staying human in a fractured world. Rooted in myth and grounded in the everyday, these poems braid tenderness with grit, bearing witness to what breaks us and what binds us back together.

These are poems for those who have stood in empty galleries of their own making. For those who have loved what they could not keep. For those who have wrestled faith, survived themselves, and learned that healing often leaves a seam..

Inside these pages you will find:

myth reimagined for modern streets.
fatherhood rendered fierce, and tender.
recovery told without the varnish.
loneliness that doesn’t look away.
hope folded carefully from ordinary paper.
This is a book for anyone who has learned that survival can crowd out righteousness, that mercy is often hard-won, and that light is something we sometimes have to make with our own hands.

Paper Stars is an offering. A listening. A knot thrown across distance.
A reminder that even the most ordinary paper can be shaped into starlight.