This is not a story about smoke. It’s a story about surviving the fire.
Smoke & Stillness holds poetry and reflection around cannabis, recovery, advocacy, ritual, creativity, quiet, stigma, and the complicated ways people search for relief and clarity.
These pieces reflect personal experience and are not medical advice or recommendations.
Ways Through the Smoke
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Evidence
No test can measure the nights, panic, meals, mornings, and quiet work behind a mother proving she can keep choosing her children.
Creative High
A crowded mind finally makes enough room for one sentence, then another, until the poem finds its own way out.
The Stigma
People see smoke and stigma; they do not see the anxiety, sleepless nights, and battles that existed long before the ritual.
The Quiet Trade
She did not stop needing relief; she chose sobriety because tiny hands needed her more, even when the old ritual still calls.
Between Bruises & Blooms 