Shoe Boxes is a collection of poems about loneliness, hope, memory, vulnerability, and the stubborn belief that somewhere there may still be someone worth writing to.
At the center of the collection is the idea of writing letters to a person not yet met—a face not yet known, a voice not yet heard, someone who exists only in imagination but still feels worth waiting for. The title poem begins with that premise and carries it through page after page, letter after letter, toward the possibility that one day those words might finally belong to someone.
The poems move through quiet rooms, unfinished conversations, longing, companionship, old disappointments, the fear of needing someone again, and the desire to be understood without having to explain everything.
This is not a collection built around grand declarations.
It is about the smaller things: wanting someone beside you when the room is too quiet, wondering whether another person might recognize the part of you hidden behind the words, and holding on to the possibility that loneliness is not necessarily the end of the story.
Shoe Boxes is for anyone who has ever written something they could not send, missed someone they had not found yet, or kept believing that somewhere, somehow, connection was still possible.
