Amort

Amort gathers twenty selective poems by Romessa Fatima, an engineer by profession and a poet at heart, into a single descent through the hidden chambers of the mind. Intrusive thoughts, heightened self-awareness, grief, and longing are not explained away here but examined closely, given shape as scenes, figures, and personifications that carry real weight. The poems move through the ache of memory, unrequited devotion, numbness worn as a smile, and the unsettling moment of meeting one's own reflection, drawing at times on myth and classical allusion to deepen their reach. The title itself, an old word for the lifeless and spiritless, holds both love and death in its sound, and these pages live in exactly that tension. Honest, introspective, and quietly fearless, Amort gives language to feelings often dismissed as out of the ordinary, and a strange companionship to anyone who has known them.