Diffractions at Dawn

Diffractions at Dawn takes its title from the idea that light—and life—rarely travel unfractured. Every experience is bent through perception, splitting into meanings that are at once contradictory and coexistent. These poems move through that fractured luminosity: of memory and mortality, illusion and insight, ego and erasure. Across its pages, the ordinary is made uncanny, and the abstract is grounded in lived human paradox. The self appears as both observer and observed, dissolving into reflections that refuse to settle into a single truth. In tone that is contemplative yet sharply observant, the collection traces how meaning is constantly “diffracted” through time, language, and consciousness. And somewhere between fracture and illumination, the reader is left with the quiet question: what do we truly see when we think we are seeing clearly?