In Utero

In Utero: 72 Steps to Life is the first volume in the Pressure series.

Composed of seventy-two one-stanza poems, the collection traces an inward journey from the symbolic experience of the womb through birth, memory, fear, hunger, and the awakening of consciousness. Each poem stands on its own while contributing to a larger narrative of human becoming.

Written under a strict formal constraint, these poems seek to demonstrate how compression can intensify poetic expression rather than diminish it. Every stanza is shaped to carry movement, consequence, and transformation within a single breath.

Meditative, symbolic, and philosophical, In Utero invites readers into a world where the smallest forms can hold the greatest pressures, and where the beginning of life becomes a meditation on what it means to exist.