you can still drown in the shallows

you can still drown in the shallows is the antithesis to traditional love poetry, offering the gritty, the gut-churning, the gross, and the pain of coupling. From cheating spouses offering marriage advice, to the innate fear below the surface in abusive relationships, being in love is pretty much never a version Disney would make into a film. The dark and perverse minds of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, on the other hand, would delight at the reality of the poems in you can still drown in the shallows. How does death play a role in our romantic relationships? What's it like dating someone whose bipolar disorder hasn't quite yet walked into the party? you can still drown attempts answers to these questions and much more.

Devon Fulford, EdD, is the author of the poetry collections thrum, (2026), hopscotch (2026), you can still drown in the shallows (2026), onus (2025), gulp (2024), the skin song (2024), and southern atheist: oh, honey (2021). She's the faculty director for the Literacy Through Prose and Poetry at Colorado State University program, where she teaches writing. Visit her website: https://www.definwords.com/.