J.D. River

Not a Rival, a Translation is a queer devotional poetry chapbook about love shaped by restraint, ritual, labor, and loss.Set within a monastic world of choir stalls, infirmary rooms, harvest fields, cold corridors, psalms, bells, and shared work, the sequence follows a novice through the early years of fellowship and attachment. What begins as attention becomes longing. What must remain unspoken g...