Nearly

Poems

De: Mira Hadlow

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Nearly is a book about the ache of almost.

In this third collection, Mira Hadlow writes from the thresholds: the space between wanting and having, leaving and staying, word and silence. These are poems of suspension, where touch almost lands, confessions almost surface, and the life you almost chose haunts the one you’re living.

Structured in five movements – Let Us Witness, Let Us Hunger, Let Us Burn, Let Us Go, Let Us Remember –
Nearly moves through the quiet violences of perception, desire, rupture, and return. Lovers become ghost-light. Kitchens turn into chapels. Doorways, beds, stairwells, and coffee cups hold the afterimage of what almost was.

Hadlow’s language is intimate and sharp, mixing reverence and profanity, tenderness and bite. She writes for anyone who has stayed too long, left too late, or lived in the purgatory of mixed signals and half-promises. These poems don’t offer easy catharsis. They linger in the unresolved, the unfinished, the “not quite” that shapes a life.

For readers drawn to liminal spaces, raw devotion, and the strange holiness of heartbreak, Nearly is a map of the in-between: the place where nothing is certain, everything is felt, and almost is its own kind of haunting.