Poetry Chapbook

The classic self-published poetry format: a title page, a short preface, and poems given room to breathe. Replace the sample poems with your own — the layout handles line breaks, spacing, and typography so your work reads the way it should on the page.

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What's in it

"Small Hours" — 7 pages, written and laid out:

1. Small Hours
2. A Note Before You Begin
3. Inventory
4. I have spent my life learning that the small hours are not empty. They are simply unwitnessed.
5. Weather Report
6. Add a photograph, a scan, or a drawing here
7. Last Poem

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