The Debris of Love | Dave Martin Almerino | Poetry

Description

In this debut collection, Dave Martin Almerino gathers the quiet ruins and radiant fragments of a life lived in deep feeling. His poems are invitations—to pause, to listen, to admit what still trembles beneath the surface. These pieces do not merely recount experiences; they examine the echoes, the aftershocks, the silences that followed.

This collection is his testament—to solitude and survival, to mothers and memory, to the versions of love that both strengthened and fractured him. But more than that, it is a companion for readers standing at the edges of their own truths. It asks them to sift through their own debris, to recognize the remnants of pain they’ve carried, and to see that these remnants are not failures—they are proof of life.

In these poems, Dave offers not just words, but a hand reaching back. A reminder that no matter how heavy or quiet our stories are, we are never truly reading them alone.