Shape of Becoming

The Shape of Becoming is a poetry collection written from the
waiting room of modern migration—where visas expire faster than
hope, where love is conditional, and where belonging is always
“under review.” Drawing from lived experience, interviews, and
the quiet confessions traded in immigration forums and late-night
phone calls, Anish maps the interior life of those who build the
digital future of their adopted countries while remaining perpetually
temporary within them. Blending lyrical poetry with the syntax of
code, documentation, and bureaucratic language, these poems turn
forms into feelings: applications become prayers, status updates
become elegies, and error messages expose the daily microfractures
of displacement. The collection moves from border interviews to
naturalization ceremonies, tracing not just a legal journey but an
emotional one—how identity is debugged, softened, fragmented,
and reassembled in the long latency between authorization and
home. At once tender and unsparing, The Shape of Becoming
asks urgent questions: What does it mean to love when your life is
conditional? How do you protect your source code when a system
keeps rewriting you? When does integration stop being a technical
term and begin to feel real? This is not a singular immigrant story
but a collective one—a pastiche of voices, memories, and waiting
lives. A hybrid of eulogy and blueprint, The Shape of Becoming is
documentation in two senses: a poetic record and a paper trail of
what it means to exist between countries, languages, and selves.