Balance Sheets: Chemical reaction
About this ebook
Across poems that bend language, mutate form, and collapse emotional binaries, the speaker navigates a world where truth is rendered, love is algorithmic, and the body becomes both instrument and battleground.
From the epistemic break of perception to the liminal thresholds of selfhood, these poems trace the charged currents between two people who orbit, collide, and flatten under the weight of their own polarity. Here, intimacy is chemical. Memory is a residue. And every connection is a test of what survives after the high dissipates.
This is a book about the collapse of certainty — and the dangerous beauty found in the ruins.
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About the author
Nashon (Peon Neon) Kemp is a multidisciplinary poet and manuscript architect (as well as recording artist) whose work fuses emotional honesty with rigorous structural design. Known for inventing new poetic forms, recursive systems, and original vocabulary, he builds books like living organisms — each poem a chamber, each section a threshold, each word chosen with surgical intention.
His writing balances cold minimalism with raw vulnerability, weaving chemistry, philosophy, and relational psychology into a singular voice that refuses convention. Across his work, Nashon explores duality, contradiction, and the architectures of love — crafting poems that are as intellectually precise as they are emotionally devastating. He writes from the scar, not the wound. And every book he creates expands the language of what poetry can hold and accomplish.
