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Between Breath & Release

Between Breath & Release


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Between Breath & Release: A Love Story in 24 FormsCan love carry instructions beyond death? Between Breath & Release-the fifth volume in The Cartography of Voice cycle-answers this through three souls in purgatory: Thomas and Grace, partners who died in a diner fire, and Ezra, who died at 24 after learning he was adopted, now standing outside their door as witness. THE CONVERGENCEEzra dies saving a boy from traffic. He arrives in a liminal building and watches the couple next door through thin walls. He absorbs their patterns-Thomas's restraint, Grace's panic every Sunday at 12:24 a.m., their rebuilt partnership. What Ezra doesn't know: Grace gave him away at eighteen He's here to witness their love so their souls can reorganize He will become the baby they lost at sixteen weeks Three identities collapse into one: the adopted son (chosen, never known), the miscarried child (grieved, never held), and the witness (learning love before birth). All converge into Ezra. Finally born. Finally home. THE STRUCTURE IS THE STORYForm becomes narrative. Structure becomes meaning. 24 poems across 12 forms, each appearing twice: LIGHT = Building love (restraint, ritual, partnership) DARK = Trauma surfacing (violence, grief, dissolution) Forms as emotional containers: SONNETS: Containment after chaos VILLANELLES: Trauma loops EPIC: Love as tragedy CONCRETE POEM: Bodies scattering and reforming THE ENCODED TRAUMAThe architecture carries grief: 24 poems = Ezra's age at death 12 forms = The driver's sentence 12:24 a.m. = The miscarriage hour (12 forms × 24 poems) Poem 16 = "Counting the Dead" (16 weeks gestation) THIS IS ABOUT: The adopted son watching his birth mother love someone else-witness as preparation The miscarried child becoming the vessel for return Love leaving instructions across death Choosing your parents after they gave you away What survives when everything burns CONTENT ADVISORYFor adults. Contains adoption grief, miscarriage, death, trauma responses, brief sexual content, strong language. This is not trauma bait. Traumatic events happened before the story begins. You'll read aftermath: scars, triggered responses, slow trust. This is about witness, recovery, and what love builds from damage.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798218844028
  • Publisher: Deep Cuts Records
  • Publisher Imprint: Deep Cuts Records
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8218844023
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
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  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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