Between Bruises & Blooms
A poetry archive for the things that bruise us, the things that bloom anyway, and everything we become in between.
Welcome to the library. Here you’ll find poetry and reflections rooted in motherhood, grief, love, survival, healing, darkness, nature, and the ordinary moments that refuse to stay ordinary.
Latest Writing
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Ten Years
A decade cannot be reduced to courtrooms and screenshots; it also held grocery lists, dreams, inside jokes, grief, and a life once built together.
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I Read Until I Disappear
Some nights the only way to quiet my own world is to disappear into somebody else’s until morning.
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To My Sister, Sierra
A letter to a sister about distance, loyalty, hurt, and the complicated love that survived the middle of a family crisis.
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Green Bubbles
Insults arrive in grey bubbles while her answers stay green—the color of everything in her that refuses to die.
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The First Medicine Cat
Being the first medicine cat does not make every choice wise, especially the wound Moth Flight left inside her own kits.
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The First Ambulance
An earliest memory begins not with birthday cake or summer grass, but with sirens, fear, and a family already learning how quickly safety can disappear.
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I Fell in Love Too Late
Lara betrays Aren before she understands she loves him, setting the fire before realizing Ithicana is the home she wants to keep.
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Just a Question
A poem about learning that even simple questions could become conflict.
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When I Say I’m Okay
“I’m okay” becomes a fluent survival language for pain that feels too heavy, complicated, or burdensome to explain out loud.
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Nesta Gave It Back
Nesta’s redemption is not softness—it is choosing love when saving Feyre, Nyx, and Rhys costs her something enormous.
Stay in the Garden
New poems, new rooms, and whatever blooms next—delivered without making you hunt through the archive for it.
