Dara Laine is a poet of grief, memory, and the sacred ordinary

“The fridge light blooms in the dark like a wound.”
— Pantoum for Leftovers
“The cards sit in a drawer,
edges curling inward,
carrying what I couldn’t say.”
— Thank-You Cards
“Now I speak softly
to the air that listens back.”
— 777
“No one shouted.
Just hands.”
— After the Line