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The Anatomy of a Falling Star
Paperback
Publisher: Makitia Thompson
Published: Dec 8 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Anatomy of a Falling Star is a journey through the fragile, aching spaces of the human heart and spirit. In these pages, desire and doubt intertwine, faith trembles under the weight of longing, and the body remembers what the soul sometimes forgets. Each poem is a quiet reckoning, a dissection of life's light and shadow, of temptation and devotion, of identity and the relentless ache of existence.
Here, stars fall slowly, carrying stories of loss, spiritual questioning, and the seductive pull of what we cannot resist. Some sparks fade, others linger, stubbornly refusing to die. This collection is for anyone who has felt the weight of their own questions, the hunger for intimacy, and the tender, unspoken pulse of survival, even in the dimmest hours.
A meditation on faith, sensuality, and the human spirit, The Anatomy of a Falling Star asks what it means to keep shining when the world grows heavy, when hope wanes, and when the self teeters between light and shadow.
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