Written from inside of it, not from the outside looking in.
These are poems about domestic abuse — emotional, verbal, coercive, and the kind that leaves no visible bruises. They name what was hardest to name at the time: the erosion, the isolation, the slow rewriting of what love was supposed to feel like.
Please read gently. If any of this is close to your own life, the Resources page has crisis hotlines, safety-planning tools, and trauma-informed help. You are not alone. What you're experiencing is real. It is not your fault.
The reading list below is free. Every poem is drawn from Letters I'll Never Send and Ampersands. The print editions hold the full arc — including the poems written for the people who never got them.
The moment the door first closed a different way.
From Letters I'll Never Send
On being made to feel homeless inside your own life.
From Letters I'll Never Send
The impossible math abuse asks you to do.
From Letters I'll Never Send
When the pattern finally has a name.
From Letters I'll Never Send
On what was said versus what was done.
From Letters I'll Never Send
How silence becomes survival, and then a cage.
From Letters I'll Never Send
The years you can only see looking back.
From Letters I'll Never Send
On the vow that became a weapon.
From Ampersands
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Letters I'll Never Send is a poetry memoir readers call "the words I could never say out loud." Over 300 pages of poems, prose, and fragments tracing one woman's journey from si…
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