In this lyric exploration of contemporary urban life at its most fragile and uncanny, Ryan Di Francesco presents the poet as narrator witnessing-and surviving-the quiet violence of everyday life.

These poems move through cities, encampments, late-night streets, industrial ruins, and intimate interiors, tracing the emotional and physical debris of living in a collapsing world.

Explorations of homelessness, addiction, insomnia, and environmental breakdown meet the tenderness of impossible places and the surreal hallucinations of modern fatigue.

Ryan Di Francesco (he/him) is a Canadian writer, teacher, and editor based in Ontario. His work has appeared in over forty literary journals and anthologies, including Acta Victoriana, Pacific Review, Soliloquies Anthology, and Pinhole Poetry. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Shadow and Sax, an independent literary and arts press. His chapbooks include Skeleton Mine Disaster (Bottlecap Press) and The Paper Hound and Canadian Classic (Alien Buddha Press). He was shortlisted for the Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize.