{"product_id":"when-we-were-rain-poems-on-youth-memory-and-nostalgia-9798274659840","title":"When We Were Rain: Poems on Youth, Memory, and Nostalgia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lora Dickens\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen We Were Rain\u003c\/b\u003e is a journey into the soft-weathered places of memory-those corners of childhood and adolescence where light lingers, laughter echoes, and the heart learns its earliest vocabularies of wonder, longing, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, Lora Dickens gathers the fragments of youth like scattered raindrops on an open palm. Each poem returns to a moment once lived and almost forgotten-barefoot summers, whispered secrets, rusted swings, unfinished letters, first glances, first heartbreaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoments that slipped through time, \u003cbr\u003eyet stayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection moves through the innocence of early days, the tremors of first encounters, the ache of growing pains, the tender reckonings of change, and the luminous quiet of reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book for anyone who has ever felt time tug gently at their sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for those who still hear echoes when they pass the places they once called home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for the ones who remember how it felt to be held by a season, \u003cbr\u003eby a friendship, \u003cbr\u003eby a fleeting, unforgettable hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough lyrical storytelling and intimate imagery, the poems invite readers to revisit the landscapes of their own becoming-riversides and rooftops, playgrounds and porches, rainstorms and bedrooms where young hearts first learned how to hope, how to break, and how to begin again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, nostalgia is not a longing backwards but a soft illumination of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, memory is a companion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quiet keeper of who we have been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Rain\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that the past is never as distant as it seems. It drifts beside us like weather-shaping us, softening us, teaching us how to love what was while still stepping gently into what remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for anyone who carries their younger self tenderly inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for anyone who remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594186375319,"sku":"9798274659840","price":1380.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798274659840.webp?v=1774985018","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-we-were-rain-poems-on-youth-memory-and-nostalgia-9798274659840","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}