This collection of poetry is a record of the greatest injuries and joys of the heart that I have experienced in my short life. The past year has mimicked a molting. Patient, necessary, and evolving.
Integrating this work has been a bittersweet rupture of the chrysalis and its completion an exoneration from these growing pains of loss, addiction, recovery, and a renewed sense of life.
Each poem was written between March 2022 and February 2023. They proceed chronologically.