Wrong Manual Book and when separation tore me

and when separation tore me apart

From a quiet Christmas beginning to a friendship that blossoms into enduring love

showing that grammar can truly sing when words find harmony

Guided by a devotion to emotional clarity and mythic imagery

Wrong Manual Book and when separation tore meThe Wrong Manual is a daughters unflinching journey through the contradictions of a fathers love harsh, hilarious, tender, and often wrong. These poems capture mornings that began at 3 a. m., choices made without asking, scolding that stung as much as they saved, and the shift from rebellion to reluctant gratitude. It is a story of a man who loved loudly and imperfectly, and a daughter who resisted, mourned, and finally tried to understand. Darkly