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The Salt That Remained: Poems
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 15 2025
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Salt That Remained is a collection of poems written in the half-light-where grief tastes of seawater, desire opens like flame, and the body remembers what the mind tries to forget. In these pages, MM Williams turns love into a geography, hunger into a dialect, and longing into an elemental force that reshapes the world.
From surreal kitchens where longing boils over, to harbors where silence casts its own tides, to beds where memory rusts and resurrects-these poems praise the imperfect, the weathered, the ruined, and the reborn. They descend instead of ascend. They cherish the mole, the wrinkle, the tremor; the unguarded breath; the salt left behind after a mouth leaves the skin.
These are poems of distance and touch, written for anyone who has ever:
- loved someone they could not keep
- tasted memory long after the body is gone
- returned to the same grief as if it were a familiar shore
- believed in the holiness of hunger
- wanted a map for the silence between two people
The Salt That Remained is not a book of perfect love.
It is a book of love after the fire.
Love rusting. Love fermenting. Love refusing to die.
Love returning again and again like tide-bruised, salted, luminous.
Here, the erotic and the elegiac share the same breath.
Here, the divine wears a human mouth.
Here, desire is not something to be purified, but something to be praised.
If you have ever loved fiercely, lost hungrily, remembered helplessly-
these poems will speak in the language your body already knows.
The language of salt.
The language of fire.
The language that remains.
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