Between an End and a Beginning

Between an End and a Beginning

An original poetry collection

The origin story of an exhumed heart, told in collected fragments. These poems move through the seasons of fall, winter, and spring, tracing the depths of love, loss, and the place between an end and a beginning.

The first poetry collection by Adam-Dylan Bowlby, written for the Fool of Paradise publication.

Find in these words the start of something that was worth dying for. A new life won’t stop the old one from bleeding in. Though, there is a space between the end of something old and the start of something new. There, these poems live. For poetry is a repair. And life is continual damage. Its not life if it doesn’t hurt. Its not life if you aren’t dying. Accept whats to come. Amor Fati, they say. I do love fate. And fate loves those who fall into it. Even the fools are loved by the greater purpose. The greatest fool is the one rushing into love. Watch love flow like white water rapids, to a fool who knows nothing, all rivers flow the same. They do not. That will not stop him from dancing off the cliff, screaming prophecy at the edge as he falls off the ledge...