East Axis is a book grounded in the metaphor of mapping: metaphorical, physical, and through memory. The poems are not confined to a linear journey but move in spirals, stumbles, and redirections. The purpose of the collection is to navigate being: through grief, politicized chaos, and re-anchoring in the self and world. It maps the psyche and body in flux with personal, collective, and societal shifts.

While directionlessness is part of the terrain, there's some sense of pull or magnetic return, to a place we circle around, land, and leave, again and again.

The journey of East Axis is about not being allowed to follow a traditional path but through assembling a map from fragments, we create our own winding path, one that occasionally contradicts, then aligns, over and over.