interwoven with fact & fiction, poems i shouldn’t have written chronicles young love in its many forms: summer mistakes, flowers confused with weeds, unrequited daydreams, poor emotional investments, wanderlust, caring too much. this debut chapbook frames the end of an era in free verse, brimming with messy, vulnerable pieces that perhaps shouldn’t have been written in the midst of a world where we hide behind indifference—but needed to be.

 

these poems are the product of amelia nason’s last autumn in high school, encompassing a hectic season of college applications, motherly affect(at)ion, self portraits in stanza, & wasted intimacy. composed entirely without the benefit of hindsight, the collection is achingly urgent as it immerses the reader in nostalgia for the present.