Between Breath and Memory is a gentle remembering, for the days when the past feels close and for the days when it feels impossibly far away.

A quiet companion for moments of loss and for the ordinary hours that follow it.

For the love we inherit, the love we carry forward, and the love that learns how to live on in absence.

These poems are for when memory arrives unannounced, in objects, in gestures, in the body's knowing.

For tenderness woven into habit.

For those learning how to carry love forward, make room for memory, and continue, slowly and patiently, one breath at a time.

Between Breath and Memory is a contemplative poetry collection about family, memory, migration, and the enduring presence of love across generations.

A Moment From the Collection

“and when the world finally unlatched

its borders

after the long quarantine

of breath and fear,

I went back,

and by then the guava—

green-hearted, tireless—

was already freckled with flowers,

pale as whispered benedictions,

and I gathered a few petals,

cool and frail

as the last syllables

of a remembered blessing,

pressing them into a book

so that some small, fragrant

portion of him

might keep living

between the pages,

where time itself

cannot refuse

the act of holding on.”

Themes

Grief and remembrance

Healing after loss

Memory and belonging

Family and generational memory

Immigrant family stories

Cultural heritage and identity

Love across generations

Reflective literary poetry