This Is Our Secret

Poems you were never supposed to overhear.

This Is Our Secret is seventeen poems from inside one love, close enough to hear the alarm clock spinning the same song while her back presses against his chest. They hide out in a Maui condo where geckos climb the walls to peer in, with her four cats in the dark.

The book also holds what couples hide from everyone else: the fight that sends keys flying across the room, and the time they steal on a park bench, trying to talk their way back.

It’s the love two people keep between them, written down.

For readers who keep Raymond Carver’s poems and Jack Gilbert’s love poems within reach.

From the book

I want to take photographs of you sleeping
To place a daffodil bud in your navel
To fall asleep in your lap
On a park bench
In the sun
Atop Parisian soil
I will fill envelopes with your words

The edition

43 pages. Collector’s first printing, limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, signed by the author. Cover design by NXOEED.

The poetry of Eric Williamson

This Is Our Secret, What Of Us Remains, Where Silence Keeps You, And In Our Absence, and Before We Weren’t Anywhere. Read the titles in order and they follow one love, from the secret, to the empty room, to before any of it began.