“BUT SHE, SHE WAS A SOFT EYED SEER” What if the heart could speak its unshielded truths? In ‘The Shape the Heart Took’, seventy-one poems harbor a slow-burning force, capturing fleeting moments that demand to be felt. Each verse is a confrontation with the world’s fractures and the intimate power of love, loss, and memory. Abide within what opens, where silence breathes and feelings take form before they can be contained. Will the heart find steadiness amidst the tumult, or will it be lost to the shadows of what once was? In a realm where silence barks louder than thunder, poems help to explore the hidden, dark grooves. Each page is filled with imagination, grief, resilience, regret, awareness, affection, and unspoken truths. With a ray of hope in a profoundly shattered heart, the beloved poet unveils a spectrum of emotions to break the shackles and move forward with a heart that trembles but never stops. ______________ FATHIMA THAIBA   A CONSTELLATION OF SEVENTY ONE POEMS ON LOVE, LOSS, MEMORY, AND BECOMING