"A Bullet Led Epiphany"

This story begins where most stories stop-in the quiet after surviving yourself.

The Deluxe Limited Edition, featuring an exclusive alternate cover, is a rare collector's edition of this powerful poetry collection exploring time, identity, manhood, survival, and the quiet work of rebuilding a life after adversity.

Only 427 copies of this edition will ever be produced. Each copy will be hand-inscribed and individually numbered, making every book part of a strictly limited edition.

Structured in three sweeping acts, the collection traces a journey through fracture, memory, and resilience. Moving through time, identity, and survival, these poems speak to anyone who has stood at the edge of an ending and found the courage to begin again.

Act I: Man & Time confronts the ways time reshapes wounds, anger, memory, and the self. These poems explore manhood as a landscape of contradictions-strength and vulnerability, harm and tenderness, accountability and the shadows we carry.

Act II: Identity enters the uncertain terrain of becoming. Here, the poems examine the roots we inherit, the identities we outgrow, and the moments that force us to confront who we are beneath everything we were taught to be. It is a journey of unlearning, rebuilding, and discovering a self that remains constantly in motion.

Act III: Survival gives voice to the invisible work of enduring hardship while carrying hope like a flicker beneath the ribs. These poems illuminate a truth often overlooked: survival is rarely loud. It is daily, private, exhausting, and frequently misunderstood. It is the work we do when no one is watching.

Threaded between these acts is "Peace of an Ending," a meditation on the stillness that arrives before transformation. It is neither triumph nor closure, but the fragile pause that follows a long night-the moment when exhaustion finally makes room for breath.

The afterword reframes endings not as final destinations, but as thresholds: spaces where the past begins to loosen its grip and the future becomes writable again.

Shaped by lived experience, including homelessness, violence, perseverance, and encounters with systems that both fail and save, this collection carries deep gratitude for the people and programs that helped rebuild a foundation where there was once only survival. It honors those who choose compassion in the places where it is needed most.

At its core, this is a story of a voice carved from adversity and sharpened by truth-a testament to endurance, transformation, and the possibility of becoming something beyond what happened to you.

The Deluxe Limited Edition is more than an alternate presentation of the collection. With its exclusive alternate cover, hand inscription, and individual numbering, it is a tangible record of a story that could only be told once-and a limited edition created to be held, kept, and remembered.