And in his hand a glass which shows us many more.
Shakespeare
Et torpenti multa relinquitur miseria.
De Imitatione
About This Book
A sequence of introspective lyric poems examines inner confinement and spiritual malaise through recurring motifs of glass, greenhouse, moonlight, lilies, and stifling warmth. Vivid imagery evokes paralytic longing, fevered temptation, fragile prayer, and scenes of illness and nocturnal vision, while alternating between devotional supplication and surreal natural metaphor. The poems map a psyche oscillating between melancholic stasis and faint luminous yearning, favoring atmospheric symbolism and concentrated sensory language over plot to explore remorse, desire, and the fragile boundary between dreaming and waking.