Blues: Poetry
by J.G. Littlejohn

A collection of 65 poems written from inside the weight of it, family that feels like a hostage situation, days that blur into each other, the voice in your head asking if you'll ever get it right. Blues doesn't dress up the low points. It sits in them: the anger, the numbness, the moments of "I don't know" that stretch on too long, and the small, stubborn refusals to quit anyway.

Blunt, unfiltered, and often darkly funny in the middle of it all, these poems move through heartbreak, self-doubt, defiance, and the slow, uneven work of getting back up. This is poetry for anyone who's had a day, a year, a stretch of life that felt like it was working against them, and kept writing (or living) through it regardless.