POETRY · WORKING TITLE · IN DEVELOPMENT
daffodils, lilacs, & ferns
the second poetry collection by j.d. crow
This book begins on the other side of Sunflowers & Shadows. Not untouched by grief, but no longer organized around it.
The current collection moves through home, scars, softness without weakness, manhood, responsibility, enduring love, self-respect, weathered roads, rooms, hands, backbone, breath, and the little things that become evidence that a life is still growing.
daffodils, lilacs, & ferns is the opening poem and the current working title for the collection while the manuscript continues to find its final shape.
still carrying
What remains. What changes shape. What we learn to hold differently.
becoming
Identity, manhood, responsibility, appetite, courage, and the quieter work of growing.
rooms & hands
Home, intimacy, ordinary tenderness, labor, memory, and the life built in small acts.
A different kind of blooming
The collection is not trying to become Sunflowers & Shadows II. It carries forward what mattered, then turns toward peace, humor, strength, companionship, philosophy, desire, and the stubborn beauty of continuing to tend the garden.