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Afterlife
Coming Soon!
What remains when the moment has passed, the light has faded, or the world as we knew it no longer exists?
In Afterlife, the boundaries between grief and grace, chaos and clarity, are thin. Through formal elegance and sonic precision, these poems navigate the emotional terrain of burnout, trauma, reinvention, and survival. Whether grappling with memory, identity, or the inevitability of change, each piece asks what it means to endure—and who we become when we do.
With wit, bite, and lyrical mastery, this chapbook doesn't seek redemption in a promised paradise. Instead, it finds meaning in the in-between: the dusk, the aftermath, the deep breath before beginning again.
About
Thomas James
Thomas James is a human male. He is a citizen of the United States of America, but nobody asked him. He is a Coloradan who was unfortunately born in New York, but this has been corrected. He is a serial poet, long-distance driver, lover of spicy foods, and fan of the Oxford comma. He recently broke, but now he’s building something better out of the pieces. He is the author of Nuclear Family: Poetic Fallout and the editor of The Crooked Circle, an online literary magazine on Medium and Substack. His new poetry chapbook, coming soon, is entitled Afterlife.