If you’re wondering which poetry book you should read in 2024, Start with “Where She Grows” Still Growing Wildflowers: a Healing Poetry Series. I started writing poetry back in 2018 to process life (like we all do) and in January 2020 I published my first healing poetry book, Still Growing Wildflowers. I wasn’t planning on […]

If you’ve ever been told: be more ladylike / to talk quietly / to stop drawing attention to yourself / to dress differently / that you’re too much or that you should be better behaved /

If you’ve ever felt like: you are hard to love / you love too much / that you always give, but get nothing back / or that you’ll never be good enough…

think of your healing as a seed: you’re pushed into the dirt and

let me tell you all the ways I love you: first is the way

August first: this is the first time in nine years that I am not sad on her birthday.
you and I are standing under a summer storm
the desert kind that don’t come often enough, but when they do they come hard and fast

If I could write you a goodbye is a poem in my newsest poetry collection, The Worst of Me.

530
It’s too early for phone calls
But I wake up to my phone buzzing

maybe one day august won’t feel like this

August is the hardest month of the year for me. That’s probably what happens when you lose someone you love in that month. Summers don’t really feel the same, but maybe one day, they’ll feel different.

I make love to myself in my apartment on the couch – you want to hear about that, but not