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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If You Knew
A tender confession about carrying someone like a protected secret and wondering what they would do if they knew.
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Between Bruises and Blooms
Healing is not forgetting the past—it is learning to love the version of yourself who survived it and kept choosing tomorrow.
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My Rainbow Boy
A rainbow baby arrives after unimaginable loss, not replacing grief but proving that hope can still grow in broken ground.
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Home Is You
After surviving storms no one saw, she discovers that home can be a person who arrives quietly and stays gently.
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The Summer I Missed
A mother hopes her children are collecting summer joy even as she aches over all the moments she is missing.
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Two Hearts, One Beginning
Two sisters begin side by side, sharing a beginning while growing into two beautifully different little souls.
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They Call It a Battle
Custody is called a battle, but for a mother living inside the waiting, there is no clean finish line—only love that keeps showing up.
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The Things I Can’t Remember
A sleepless mother searches photographs and memory for pieces of the daughter she had too little time to know.
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Manitoba Thunder
A Manitoba storm gathers over the prairie, turning wind, wheat, lightning, and thunder into something almost alive.
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The Name of the Monster
A mother finally learns the medical name behind her daughter’s loss—and begins laying down guilt that was never hers to carry.
Stay in the Garden
New poems, new rooms, and whatever blooms next—delivered without making you hunt through the archive for it.
