The Before: Helsinki > Milan > Cinque Terre > Florence > Venice > Rome
Eleven years later, this writing series returns to the European trip that quietly changed the course of my life.
What began as a winter holiday between two people in their twenties became something far more formative — a story about travel, love, fracture, and the years it took to understand what happened there.
These short chapters trace the journey across cities and time zones, and the long echo it left in the body and nervous system long after the plane landed home.
TwT || Poems and Nightmares
This collection gathers the poems, fragments, and reflections that sit beneath the surface of the travel series — the interior record of what the body carried long after the trip ended.
Moving between memory, intimacy, violence, and recovery, these pieces trace the slow work of returning to oneself.
Some stories live in chronology. Others live in the nervous system. This section holds both.
TwT || The After: Florence, Pisa, Lucerne, Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, New Zealand, Australia, Vancouver, New Orleans
The second series follows the trip that altered the trajectory of my life — and the decade it took to learn how to live inside its aftermath.
What unfolded across Europe in my late twenties reshaped my body, relationships, and sense of safety in ways I didn’t yet have language for.
These chapters explore travel, memory, and the difficulty of “just moving on,” revealing how violence, intimacy, and survival continue long after the moment itself has passed.
Helsinki > Milan > Cinque Terre > Florence > Venice > Rome
Eleven years later, this writing series revisits the trip that quietly changed the course of my life.
What began as a winter holiday between two people in their twenties became something far more formative — a story about travel, love, fracture, and the years it took to understand what happened there.
These short chapters trace the journey across cities and time zones, and the echo it left in the body and nervous system long after the plane landed home.
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