Violence is not about war, crime, or trauma. It is about what precedes and outlasts them: violence as a primordial force, indifferent to human presence, older than civilization and larger than any single act. Across five acts, this debut collection moves from the cosmic to the intimate, from the birth of stars to the fracture of a social contract, from inherited bloodlines to the silence of a bystander. It does not ask for your comfort. It asks for your witness.