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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Hi
Yesterday held hatred; today begins with a casual hello, but memory refuses to pretend the words in between never happened.
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You Fell in Love With the Woman You Planned to Destroy
Nothing ruins a perfectly good revenge plot faster than a morally bankrupt man accidentally developing feelings.
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The Words That Didn’t Fit
Someone throws every ugly label they can find, only to discover none of them are heavy enough to become her name.
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She Loved Them Like a General
Lilith loved like a general, and her daughters only fully understood the shape of that love after death stole the chance to ask why.
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You Broke Up With Me
A poem about refusing to let a breakup be rewritten as a mutual ending.
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First, You Broke Me
The cruelest breaking is not bone or skin—it is destroying someone’s certainty until even her own mind feels unreliable.
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Nothing
One question, one word, and one truth that arrives years too late: she had done nothing to deserve it.
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Beaner Looked Up
Every time Gabby says “sister,” Beaner looks up, as though love has a language older than words.
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HoneySpark vs. Myst: Round 846
HoneySpark brings speed and questionable judgment; Myst brings patience and experience. The outcome of round 846 is never really in doubt.
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What They Named a Monster
History was kinderto the swordthan it ever wasto the woman bleeding beneath it. That is how the story goes. A man becomes violentand someone searches his childhoodfor the wound that explains him. A woman becomes angryand suddenlythe anger is the crime. So they wrote Medusabackward. Started with the snakes. Started with the stone. Started with…
Stay in the Garden
New poems, new rooms, and whatever blooms next—delivered without making you hunt through the archive for it.
