Orphan Bonding: A Queer Black Woman’s Poems of Love, Loss, and Belonging

In Orphan Bonding: A Queer Black Woman's Poems of Love, Loss, and Belonging, Oriana Cambria Myles threads the soft, insistent music of memory with the slow ache of discovery. This is not just a love story, it is a map of survival, desire, and chosen family, told in free verse that carries you from Chicago student hangouts to Seattle streets, from the ghosting of first love to the steadiness of a roommate who lovingly folds your towels when you accidentally forget them in the dryer. With clarity and emotional precision, Myles offers a lyrical archive of what it means to be a queer Black woman making a life one gesture at a time. For readers who crave intimacy without spectacle, resilience without erasure, Orphan Bonding is an invitation to belong to yourself, and to each other.