Poetry
Sunlight. Streaming down in gilded beams. That’s the first thing I remember. A hunger for knowledge. Growth. Experience. That came next. And when I had absorbed all I could carry to take me onward, I anchored myself and welcomed the metamorphosis. How? Even I can’t say for sure. From crawling to flying, blindness to sight, hydrostatic to exoskeleton, leaves to nectar. I emerged a new being and started a new journey. But it was what I had learned from before that allowed me to follow the light and fly in complete freedom alongside others who had also made it. And together we changed the path for those who followed.
Unbreak my mind.
Invisible fracture lines of the glued together thoughts.
Hold them in place so they don’t travel through space and time
to another world where broken minds exist and live happily.
Unbreak the sadness that looms and piece together the feebly flapping wings of emotion.
Catch them in a net so they don’t escape.
Unbreak the fear that invades and the panic that follows.
Find the courage to tell the voices “no, go away” and the courage
to discern your own from the crowd.
Unbreak the broken, the tattered, the discarded.
Unbreak the recycled thoughts that don’t have a home to call their own,
so they find a home in my mind.
There is room enough for us.
There is room in this unbroken mind for all.
An Unbroken Mind
The ten poems in this collection were written over the course of one hospital stay in 2019. I wrote one poem every day and when I got home, I used tissue paper to make accompanying art for each one.
A poem I wrote after my grandmother’s death. I am fascinated by the grieving process elephants demonstrate, and think it is both heartbreaking and beautiful.
Sadness Is A Parade
There’s A Crack In The Ceiling
A collection of poems about depression written over the course of several years.