In this debut collection, Rachel Pitre writes of the small town she longs to escape and the strange pull it still holds. She writes of grief tucked into unexpected corners—nursing homes, coffee shops, and doctors’ offices. She writes of Canada, of fractures in the ground we stand on, of the families we inherit and the ones we choose.
These poems are not linear, because life rarely is. They drift between moments, memories, and imaginings—capturing the way we experience the world: in flashes, in fragments, across landscapes both personal and collective.
With honesty and tenderness, Pitre invites readers to linger in the spaces between love and loss, leaving and belonging, silence and noise.
