Between Bruises & Blooms

  • 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…

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  • Yes, I used AI for a cover. A picture. A frame. A doorway into something I had already written with my own two hands. But the words? The words were mine. The grief was mine. The memories I had to drag up from places I spent years trying to bury were mine. The bruises were…

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  • Search Bar Saint

    You called me lazy with an algorithm in your pocket. Called me fake from an app that finishes your thoughts before you type them. You preached purity beneath a search bar that literally says AI. But sure— tell me again how untouched you are. Tell me how your hands are clean while your feed decides…

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  • A release-night poem about baking, refreshing Amazon, smoke breaks, Goodreads, and all the ordinary little things that filled the hours before the book came home.

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  • A release-day poem about countdowns, time zones, refresh buttons, and watching a book cross oceans before it finally makes its way home.

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  • Some bruises fade from skin and settle into memory. This poem is about the book that gave mine somewhere to speak.

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  • Punchline

    Laughter becomes a locked door when jokes are easier to offer than the painful truths waiting just beneath the surface.

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  • Angels at the Window

    Surrounded by familiar darkness, she keeps dreaming toward heaven—small as a candle in a graveyard, shaken but refusing to go out.

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  • When four children finally sleep beneath one roof, the silence becomes a sacred pause where exhaustion and gratitude can exist together.

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  • Some sacrifices look like death, some like disappearance, and some like becoming the very darkness you hoped would save the people you love.

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