What It's Like To Love You, by KaiLuna Holmes

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

This chapbook is a work of devotion, absence, and the exquisite ache of wanting. The collection traces the emotional journey of love, how it settles into the body, lingers in ordinary spaces, and fractures with distance. Nature, faith, and the physical senses return as anchors: damp grass against bare feet, wedding-white towels on forgiving floors, the quiet weight of words left unsaid. Each poem creates tension between tenderness and ruin, where longing becomes both sustenance and pain.

The speaker moves through mornings and nights spent in solitude, staircases paused upon, gardens tended alone, and lovers imagined across time zones. Desire here is not simply romantic; it is spiritual and blurs the line between prayer and obsession. Throughout the collection, intimacy is expressed with startling vulnerability. It allows beauty and shame as well as devotion and doubt, to exist side by side without apology.

Together, these poems form a landscape that is raw yet carefully crafted. The chapbook invites readers into a private world where love is chosen again and again, even when it comes at great cost. It is a collection for those who willingly walk through hell for the sake of a love that feels like heaven.

KaiLuna is a poet whose work explores love, longing, and faith. Rooted in sensory detail and emotional honesty, her poems often weave intimacy with devotion and desire. Her work is driven by an attention to language, rhythm, and image. For KaiLuna, writing is a way of understanding herself within the absurdity that is life and love.