Balance Sheets

Book four in the series is the reckoning that the whole entire series has been orbiting. Where the earlier books, documented, collapse, desire, rupture, and survival, this final installment steps outside the wreckage and examines it with clarity, precision, and metaphysical distance it is the moment or memory becomes evidence, emotion becomes data, in the south becomes both witness and architect.

Across these poems the speaker confronts the relationship that shaped him most – not to relive it, but I understand the cost of caring someone else's evolution. The book moves to revelation, rupture and release, exposing the emotional labor the memory, the instability in the quiet sacrifices that were never acknowledged. Each poem functions like a chamber in a larger system: a site where truth is extracted, examined, and finally named.

This final installment of the series transforms the personal into the structural. It reveals how love can be a catalyst, how silence can sink ships, and how truth – spoken too late – becomes its own form of closure. It's the culmination of the series; a final audit of the heart, a metaphysical elevation, and the acceptance that some endings are not failures, but necessary evolutions.

This is not a return to the past. It is the last time the past gets to speak.