For the slow work of learning your own face and voice again.
Rebuilding after abuse or long trauma is quieter work than leaving. It's meeting yourself in small ways — food you actually like, opinions no one edits, a face in the mirror that starts to belong to you again.
The poems below are free. The print editions carry the full arc from the wreckage to the mornings that finally feel like your own.
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On undoing what survival taught you.
From Letters I'll Never Send
The slow return to your own preferences.
From Letters I'll Never Send
For asking to be taught something you were never shown.
From Letters I'll Never Send
For learning your own face again.
From Ampersands
On losing the words for what happened.
From Ampersands
On what you had to wear to survive.
From Ampersands
For the version of you that survived.
From Letters I'll Never Send
For the long return to yourself.
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 man's journey from sile…
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Ampersands is a philosophical poetry collection about wonder, identity, memory, language, love, and everything that refuses to fit into a single answer.
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The whole reading room, gathered for the long return to yourself.
The impossible math of leaving — and the first quiet after the door closes.
For the memory you were told to doubt, and the day the fog finally lifted.
For the God who stayed when the church didn't.
A free digital edition of the first six parts of Letters I'll Never Send, then one new poem or letter each Sunday.
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A free digital edition of the first six parts of Letters I'll Never Send — plus one new poem or letter each week.
Quiet Sunday emails: one new poem, letter, or song each week.