The Forbidden Fruit of Eden

THE WEIGHT OF WAX: THE FORBIDDEN FRUITS OF EDEN

Every garden has something growing beneath it.

Some things are beautiful because they were never meant to be touched. Others become forbidden only after we learn what they can take from us.

The Forbidden Fruits of Eden wanders through the garden before the bite, the moment of wanting, and everything that remains after the gates close.

Across three chapters—The Garden, The Forbidden Fruit, and After Eden—these poems explore love, lust, envy, grief, anger, temptation, control, abandonment, family, and the hunger to be wanted, understood, or chosen.

Some stories are old enough to be called myths.

Some are personal enough to still have names.

And somewhere between the two is a garden that looks a little too familiar.

The fruit is waiting.

The question is not whether it is forbidden.

The question is whether you will take it.