Glass on Asphalt: A memoir in poems about addiction, brotherhood, grief, and the stubborn act of staying alive. - Softcover

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Some wounds don't announce themselves. They arrive quietly—in a father's stories, in a friendship forged from shared damage, in the first hit of something that finally makes the noise stop.

Glass on Asphalt is a memoir in poems: 35 unflinching pieces that follow my journey from a childhood shaped by addiction and undiagnosed mental illness, through the streets of adolescence, into recovery—and then into the grief of losing his closest friend to an overdose.

Written with brutal honesty and hard-earned tenderness, these poems trace the full arc: the inherited trauma, the years of using and selling drugs, the moment a pipe cracked on asphalt and two young men made a silent pact to live. They follow the friendships that become family, the silent years, the love that arrived while the author was still becoming someone worth loving. They sit, unflinchingly, with the unanswerable question that follows every overdose loss: was it an accident, or was it a choice?

This is a book for anyone who has loved someone through addiction—or been loved through it. For anyone carrying a grief with no clean edges. For anyone who has ever stood at the bottom of something and wondered whether the tools they'd been given were enough to climb out.

Glass on Asphalt does not offer recovery as triumph or loss as resolution. It offers something rarer: the truth of a life, told in the language that life actually speaks.

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