The Temporary Teenage Years

Nobody tells you that growing up feels less like becoming something and more like grieving things slowly.Temporary Teenage Years is a poetry collection about the strange, quiet ache of being seventeen standing in the middle of who you were and who youre expected to become.These poems live in late-night car rides, college portals at 1 a.m., blurry phone-gallery memories, ceiling-staring overthinking, and the terrifying realization that ordinary moments do not stay ordinary