Gymlationship

This chapbook celebrates the gym as a space of longing, transformation, and desire—exploring the unexpected intimacy found among iron, sweat, and human connection. Through witty love letters to gym partners, meditations on the heartbreak of breaking up with your favorite workout spot, and raw reflections on lifting weights, these poems capture what it means to search for connection in the crowded gym where solitude and community collide.

Written through a queer lens, the collection is simultaneously funny, aching, and deeply honest. The poems understand the particular vulnerabilities we expose when we move our bodies—the desire for strength, the longing for recognition, the complicated feelings that arise when we're surrounded by others yet profoundly alone.