Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. There are people we meet, brush against, that forever change what happens to us after. Like crossing a threshold, they demarcate the then from the now. Sometimes that person is a stranger. Sometimes they’re the love of your life. The poems of h. chart the course of a relationship that blossoms, and wanes, in the aftermath of one such meeting. Moving through moments of grief and healing, longing and heartbreak, passion and catharsis, collectively these pieces form not only a portrait of that most ordinary of human miracles—true connection—but a love song to loss. M.P. Strayer’s work has appeared in more than sixty publications, most recently Aethlon: the Journal of Sports Literature, Bare Back Magazine, and Zoetic Press. He resides in Corvallis, Oregon. Additional writing can be found at mpstrayer.substack.com.