"Flesh covered monsters lurk in their place."

In this raw, hauntingly tender debut to the Beyond Words Collection, poetry becomes a mirror?cracked, kaleidoscopic, and unflinchingly honest. Beyond Words; for all it's worth traces the metamorphosis from adolescence to young adulthood, where every heartbeat is a rebellion and every silence a confession. Here, emotions are not tidy; they are storms that blur the lines between dreams and waking life, between the monsters we wear and the truths we bury.

With a voice that oscillates between childlike wonder and hard-worn maturity, the collection stitches together free verse and prose as unconventional as the lives they depict. Poems like "Fiasco Flesh Parade," "Eye Flower," and "Crooked Sunflower" pulse with vulnerability, exploring love's chaos, death's quiet grip, and the luminous chaos of LGBTQ+ identity. Perspectives shift like fractured light?voices of multiple genders, souls, and selves collide, echoing the refrain: "It is not you that I am in search of but rather my own soul that is reflected in yours..."

This is not a book of answers, but of questions etched in blood and ink. It's for those who've danced with their shadows, mourned versions of themselves, and dared to love recklessly in a world that demands armor.