THE LIBRARY
The shelf, grouped by what it holds.
Read in any order. There is no level to reach.
Short books that hold one state. Each volume is a small book of calm poems with a reading you can keep. Some settle. Some orient. Some restore. New volumes arrive on a regular cadence.
Short books that hold one state.
Not techniques. Not lessons. Not a program to complete. Each book is a place to stand for a few minutes while the noise moves farther off — in print, and read aloud for you. There is no order to read them in, and no level to reach.
THE ANCHOR EDITION
Where the Library gathers.
One hundred poems across all three states — the flagship volume that holds the whole of it.
ANCHOR EDITION · 100 POEMS
Stillness Is the Ritual
SETTLE · ORIENT · RESTORE
The flagship volume. One hundred short poems gathered from across the Library — a single book to keep on the shelf, by the bed, in the bag. Read aloud in one calm voice.
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Two short standalone readings.
Permission to Pause
Short poems for the moment you finally stop earning your rest.
Nothing Needs to Be Proved
Short poems for laying the need to prove gently down.
SETTLE
For quieting the body and lowering the world.
For nights you cannot lower yourself out of the day.
SETTLE · VOLUME 1
Stillness Is the Door
Poems for quieting the body and lowering the world — for the nights the day will not let go.
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SETTLE · FORTHCOMING
Sleep Comes Gently
Poems for the slow walk down into sleep — for the mind that keeps the lights on after the body is done.
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ORIENT
For returning to yourself in real time.
For days that have been moving without you.
ORIENT · VOLUME 2
Presence Is the Practice
Poems for returning to yourself in real time — for days that have been moving without you.
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ORIENT · FORTHCOMING
You Are Still Whole
Poems for the parts of a hard day that don’t take anything from you — for remembering what was never lost.
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RESTORE
For when you have given enough.
For shoulders clenched since a meeting last week.
RESTORE · VOLUME 3
Rest Is the Resistance
Poems for when you have given enough — for the rest that has been postponed too long.
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RESTORE · FORTHCOMING
Pressure Can Pass
Poems for the weight that hasn’t lifted yet — for the chest that has been bracing since morning.
Available soon
The shelf is small and growing. New volumes arrive on a regular cadence, and slot into the state they belong to. There is no order to read them in.
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Begin before the shelf opens.
The volumes arrive soon. Until then, leave your email and a short sampler comes to you — seven poems and a five-minute audio reading — for the next loud night. No noise. Just the next quiet thing when a new volume arrives.
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