Balance Sheets

In short; Balance Sheets becomes a living document of survival — a testament to the work of healing and the courage required to face the truth of one’s own history.

As a series Balance Sheets is a four‑part poetic ledger that examines the cost of being shaped by other people — lovers, friends, partners, and the ones who are gone but never leave. Drawn from years of lived experience, the series transforms memory into structure, turning emotional chaos into a deliberate system of reckoning. Each book functions as a chapter in an ongoing audit of the self, documenting what connection gave, what it took, and what it left behind.

Across the series, Nashon confronts the nonlinear work of coping and healing — mentally, emotionally, and physically. The poems move through chemistry, grief, desire, rupture, and reflection, revealing how the body remembers what the mind tries to release. Through invented vocabulary, recursive forms, and cold, intentional architecture, Balance Sheets becomes a living document of survival: a record of how a person breaks, learns, unlearns, and slowly rebuilds.

Book 2, Part 1 opens one chamber of this to a larger system (though short and succint), but the series itself expands far beyond a single emotional register. Each installment adds a new dimension to the audit — not by offering answers, but by tracing evolution. The later books deepen the inquiry, widening the lens without ever abandoning the intimacy that anchors the work.

So its totality, Balance Sheets is a long‑form study of connection and consequence — a testament to the courage required to face your own history and the quiet, deliberate work of becoming whole again.