The Pause between Places

What if the places we leave behind never truly let us go? What if a railway station still hums with your last goodbye, or a hostel room holds the shape of your silence? In these 23 poems, places are not still—they remember, they ache, they speak. An airport gate, a hospital corridor, even the earth of a burial ground become keepers of what lingers. These are not settings but sentient spaces, shaped by those who passed through. Each poem is a voice—of glass, concrete, and memory. When we leave, what remains? And who still remembers us, when we forget ourselves?