Marshmallow Man From Marrakech
Ten poems about quiet kindness — a man feeding earthquake survivors, a watchman guarding an empty building for decades.
In a world that celebrates loud success, the quiet acts of ordinary people are easy to overlook. They are also, more often than not, the ones that shape a life.
The Marshmallow Man From Marrakesh collects ten poems about kindness, responsibility and quiet courage. A mysterious man feeds earthquake survivors in Marrakesh. A watchman guards an empty building for decades. A woman plants trees alone in the dark. A cobbler repairs worn shoes left outside his shop, and never asks who left them.
None of these people are thanked. That is rather the point. Each poem sits with an action offered without recognition or reward, and with what it changes anyway.
This is a collection for adult readers — plainly written, unsentimental about what kindness costs, and clear that it does not require fame, wealth or perfection to begin. Sometimes it begins with something as small as a marshmallow placed in a child's hand.
Ten poems. A$14.95.