In a poetry collection written at 16 years old, John Colacarro shares his journey through 6 chapters. Dealing with different parts of growing up, mountains discusses themes such as heartbreak, loss, nostalgia, and self-hate. It takes the reader through a journey, hoping that they find themselves somewhere in it.

"Life is such a short thing to live in for such a long time."

A mother's love and wisdom are worth an entire life. She is your teacher, therapist, and philosopher, among other things. But when illness slowly takes her away, and you are young enough for it to be labeled as "tragic", what are you left with? What does one go through when they lose a...

It was only eight nights.

It began with a man named Neptune. Romeo, an aspiring poet, writes his story in notebooks and his poems about the encounter in the margins with hopes to publish them someday.

Twenty years prior, the two of them met out of the blue on a November night, and over the course of their time together, Romeo untangles himself and...