Teeth Marks is a brutal, lyrical walk through a house that lives behind the eyes. In five parts—The Bite, The Teeth, The Scar, The Tongue, and The Hunger—these poems name what bites (trauma, desire, survival rituals) and turn it into architecture you can walk through. Inside the mind’s rooms the monsters have faces: the Girl with the Matches (fire that keeps love at any cost), the Feral Child, Barefoot on Broken Glass, the Quiet One, She Lives in the Chandelier, and the Archivist guarding the basement of memory. They don’t leave—but they learn your name.

This book refuses pretty healing. It chooses useful truth: how to hold a match without swallowing smoke, how to keep your name in your mouth while you kiss, how to read scars as maps, not warnings. Dark, holy, and sharp, Teeth Marks is for anyone who has survived the burning and wants to stop apologizing for the mark it left.

Content note: themes of trauma, mental health, and recovery; handled with care and clarity.