Poems for the In-Between

Between light and shadow lies a world shaped by memory, myth, and the echoes we try to forget. This collection wanders through gothic landscapes, surreal dreamscapes, and the quiet rooms where grief and transformation meet. The poems move between Wonderland-like whimsy and Nevermore-like darkness, revealing the tension between the worlds we build and the ones we survive. Within these pages, ravens whisper of loss, mirrors speak in riddles, and the self fractures only to rebuild again. Here, the wounded child, the haunted wanderer, and the shadowed self walk side by side. Each poem becomes a doorway—into trauma, into healing, into the strange places where identity dissolves and reforms. Themes of death, rebirth, spiritual darkness, inner alchemy, and emotional reckoning thread through the work. Pain becomes ritual, grief becomes architecture, and the act of writing becomes a reclamation of the self. This book is for those who have lived between worlds: between hope and despair, between dream and waking, between the person they were and the one they're becoming. Poignant, unsettling, and fiercely honest, this collection invites readers to step into the in-between—to sit with their shadows, to gather their ghosts, and to discover the quiet power that grows in the dark.