Poems about Death and Transformation

It’s an interesting thing, grieving an eight-year relationship that you realize wasn’t good or healthy. Even stranger is grieving a wedding that didn’t happen and marriage to a man that I know I shouldn’t have married anyway.

I say It would’ve ended up in divorce but it did—

Eight years, split expenses, same life
all to end up lore,this book
Oh,
my decaying canon, my rot-love, my not-divorce.

In Poems about Death and Transformation, Katia Matychak writes about the emotional fallout of her canceled wedding in real time. By following her evolution and growth for more than a year, this book captures the full range of human emotions that accompany the ending of an 8-year-long relationship, just months shy of the wedding.