Fractured Syntax

Fractured Syntax untangles the language of loss and the grammar of survival. In these intimate, unflinching poems, Jayden Phoenix traces the small violences and inherited silences that fracture families and rearrange identity. From the hush of kitchen-table grief to the blunt commerce of transactional love, these poems hold both the brittle edges of pain and the muscle of endurance. Phoenix's voice is spare and precise, moving between lyric witness and hard-earned wisdom. She interrogates the au