Love’s Reckoning

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Every approved poem in Love’s Reckoning, gathered by theme — each with its cover art and a spoken reading you can play as you read.

24 poems · 4 themes

love

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Cover art for the poem “Endurance Test for One”

Endurance Test for One

by Ella Tan · 30 August 2026

A poem about affection with a built-in emergency exit — devotion that endures a sentence that never becomes a future.

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Cover art for the poem “Withering Blooms”

Withering Blooms

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

April 8th, 2026 — the seventh poem, sent into the silence

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Cover art for the poem “Gentle Orbit”

Gentle Orbit

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

September 5th, 2025 — after London, before Yasmina's birthday. She asked him to give it a title. He never did.

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Cover art for the poem “Haiku I”

Haiku I

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

April 23rd, 2025 — five days after the first kiss

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loss

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Cover art for the poem “The White Coat”

The White Coat

by Ella Tan · 8 September 2026

A cold, plain poem about the distance between a man's public reputation and the house he goes home to. This is a work of fiction; characters and circumstances have been fictionalised.

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Cover art for the poem “They Called It Safety”

They Called It Safety

by Ella Tan · 30 August 2026

A mother's reckoning — a literary, subjective poem about institutions that rename power as virtue, and a mother who refuses to let an official judgment become the truth about her love.

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Cover art for the poem “A Note from the Doll”

A Note from the Doll

by Ella Tan · 30 August 2026

A doll writes home to the girl who loved her — a poem about leaving, change, and the long way love takes to return. For Lotus.

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Cover art for the poem “Running Into a Closed Door”

Running Into a Closed Door

by Ella Tan · 24 August 2026

A poem about longing for closeness that keeps its distance — fragments of warmth, a kitchen of kisses, and the silence that follows.

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