Who There Once Was...

Who There Once Was... is a collection of poetry born in the shadow of September 11, 2001-written in real time, as the day unfolded. These are not polished reflections from the distance of history, but raw, immediate responses to a moment of rupture, loss, and searching.

And yet, decades later, their urgency remains.

The questions they ask-about identity, destruction, truth, and the human spirit-are as relevant in today's political and social climate as they were then. In a world still marked by division, conflict, and the erosion of empathy, these poems offer something rare: witness without spectacle, feeling without manipulation, and language that continues to resonate.

This is a book for those who remember, for those who wonder, and for those who feel that poetry can still hold space for the things we cannot quite name.



The poem "Man on a Horse" has been published in First Literary Review-East, and here it is as a sample:


Man on the Horse

Questions that nobody asks
Actions that nobody decides.

A wild horse
That some man rides.

Uncontrolled, he storms
With the wind
While the crowd sleeps Surrendering.