I write what refuses silence
· Recovery
April 2025 was the month my body set the terms: slower recovery, shorter writing sessions, and a more honest partnership with physical limits instead of a fight against them.
Paired Poem
A Quiet Descent
· Relationships
March 2025 held hard decisions, tension, and grace: health choices, overdue conversations, and the slower discipline of staying kind while living through difficult truth.
Paired Poem
Faith Amidst the Fury
· On Writing
I was at a low point when I wrote this poem. I won't be dramatic about it — but I was in it, and I couldn't quite see out. So I wrote about light.
Paired Poem
Quilt of Life
· Reflection
Joy is not happiness. I want to make that distinction clearly before I say anything else. Happiness is circumstantial. Joy is something deeper and stranger — it can coexist with pain.
Paired Poem
Embrace the Joy Within
· Relationships
February 2025 was about reconnection and honest communication: returning calls, dropping the polished version of the story, and letting care land where it was meant to land.
Paired Poem
The Loudest Way to Love
· On Writing
I draft digitally and revise hard. Most poems take multiple passes before they feel honest enough to keep.
Paired Poem
Whisper of Cascading Waters
· Recovery
January 2025 was triage season: another state, a drastically smaller daily radius, health first, and writing reduced to whatever truth could be carried from one day to the next.
Paired Poem
Fragments of Solace
· Travel Journal
The Los Cabos stay from December 17, 2024 through January 2, 2025 was an exhale at the edge of a difficult year: sister, Maine-circle friends, beach light, and a warm rested beginning to 2025.
Paired Poem
Reflections at Dusk
· Reflection
Someone wronged me a few years ago in a way I won't detail. The aftermath was what interested me, poetically: the weeks when I was walking around with a hot coal of resentment.
Paired Poem
Grace Over Vengeance