Stranded Hearts

For those who have loved deeply, longed silently, and carried beauty through heartbreak.

Stranded Hearts is a collection of poems that lives at the edge of things, where the familiar becomes strange and the enchanted becomes home. Gesso Cocteau writes not as an observer of love, but as one who has been undone by it, rebuilt by it, and undone again.

These poems move through love, storm, communion, seduction, fate, pain, and the private afterlife of desire. They are for readers drawn to poetry that keeps beauty alive after the heart has been changed by love.