Collected Poems: Volume I

Collected Poems: Volume I -- Earth --

Earth is the book of what stays. The book of what refuses to be hurried. The book of things that grow slowly, break slowly, heal slowly. I didn't write these pieces to solve anything. I wrote them because certain truths kept pressing upward, the way roots push through soil whether or not anyone is watching.

If you're holding this volume, you're standing at the beginning - not of the story, but of the foundation beneath it. Read these pages the way you'd walk a familiar field: noticing what's changed, what hasn't, and what's been waiting for you to come back.

Brian Padjen is the author and publisher of more than twenty books exploring character, consequence, and the emotional logic of human behavior. His work is defined by clarity, proportion, and a refusal to mythologize the world. He writes and publishes from Wisconsin.