Zubair Khan

About the author

Zubair Khan writes under the name autumnmuse. His work lives in the quiet territory between what is felt and what can be said — where love, loss, and silence overlap. Before I Lose You Twice is his first collection. The poems gathered here were not written to be gathered; they were written to survive. They arrived over years, one at a time, each one a private attempt to name something that could not otherwise be carried. That they now exist together, as a book, is itself a kind of survival. He believes poetry is less about performance than about presence — the act of sitting with what hurts long enough to find its true name. His writing is guided by restraint, by the search for the smallest honest word, and by the conviction that pain, given careful language, can become something another person recognises themselves in. *If a single poem here finds you at the right hour, it was written for you too.*”