A Heart That Loved Twice: Andrina Lejon’s “My Two Soulmates” Is a Poetry Collection Unlike Any Other
United States, 19th May 2026 – Most people count themselves lucky to find one great love. Andrina Lejon found two. Her new poetry collection, My Two Soulmates, covers nearly sixty years of living inside that rare and extraordinary fortune, and what happens when both loves are taken away.
Lejon does not tiptoe around anything. She married Gerrit when she was young, barely past girlhood, after he showed up at her door and her mother told him to leave. He came back. They built a life, had children, became the kind of couple people stopped distinguishing between. Then Primo entered her life and opened something else entirely, a faith she did not know she was missing. One man gave her roots and courage, the other offered faith. She lost them both.
The early poems sit in the good years. Lejon writes about meeting Gerrit at twelve, the way two people can grow so close that their separateness stops making sense. These pages feel lived in, not decorated. You get the impression she wrote them with her shoes off, sitting on the kitchen floor.
Then the ground drops. Gerrit gets sick, and Lejon walks the reader through it without looking away. She writes about the newspaper nobody picks up anymore, the winter jacket still hanging by the door, one place setting where there used to be two. She puts you in a hospital ward where everyone knows what is coming and nobody is ready. These are not big sweeping grief poems. They are quiet, close, and unflinching.
It’s not just sadness that shapes this book. Between lines about what’s gone, threads appear, thin ones, pulling toward wider spaces. Not prayers exactly, but speech aimed upward, outward, into gaps where meaning might live. Voices stretch past names, touch something nameless yet familiar. Old rhythms show up here, like breath borrowed from desert mystics long gone. Rumi walks close in her words, though never copied. Each poem feels unsteady on purpose, standing bare in confusion and calling that space sacred anyway.
What grabs you first is how far the book reaches. Not just inward, but out, toward kids caught in bombing raids, elderly people scraping by on European streets, silence where empathy should be. One page holds Gaza, the next a misty glen, then two figures touching under moonlight. Politics slip into private thoughts like sand through fingers, yet she never stumbles. Love keeps reappearing, quiet but firm, like a thread tied around everything broken.
And yes, there’s skin too, heat, breath held close. Out of nowhere, Lejon tackles want with an edge nobody sees coming. Fire isn’t just for youth, and she proves it. One poem pins a ceiling fan and a bloom stretching toward one another, strange, soft, unforgettable once you’ve read it.
My Two Soulmates unfolds in halves, yet some verses show up again, much like echoes inside a melody. That repetition is intentional. Affection returns. Sorrow loops. What the heart can’t release, it replays.
Pick this book up if you have ever sat in a room that used to hold someone and felt the walls still hold their presence. Pick it up if you still talk to people who are gone and wonder whether they hear you. Lejon is not trying to teach you anything about love. She is just telling you what it did to her, all of it, and trusting you to find your own reflection somewhere in these pages.
My Two Soulmates by Andrina Lejon is available now.
About the Author
Andrina Lejon was born in Scotland and now calls Ontario, Canada home. Rumi is the poet she keeps closest, and his influence runs through everything she writes. Her earlier collections include War of Innocents, Garden Dream, and For You Alone. With My Two Soulmates, she lays out a lifetime of loving two men who changed her completely, and what was left of her after they were gone.
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Country: United States
Release Id: 19052645182