Poetry Book - 414 (Digital Copy in PDF format)

This poetry booklet is a collection of poems that document the first few years of my life navigating complex feelings and emotions around transitioning, going through divorce, self-discovery, embracing identity, coping with loss, processing anger, and holding space for joy and grief at the same time. There are 5 key themes explored - love and romance, optimism, grief, the difficulty of life, and the artistic process. Many of the poems directly informed the development of song on the musical album, which are denoted with the 🎵 emoji below.

Poem List:

1. love and romance

• foreplay

• hallway of rejection 🎵

• i thought of u

• situationship

• socks

• swipin’ thru f*sh pics

• where are you?

2. optimism

• act of defiance 🎵

• an act of kindness

• beacon of hope 🎵

• better place

• birthday

• from the future

• karmic garbage dump

• see u on the other side

• sisterhood

• we are here 🎵

3. grief

• freak 🎵

• i was a mother

• so long

• the table

• what falls away

• you set us free

4. life is hard sometimes

• all eyez on me 🎵

• big girl

• coffee name 🎵

• dissociate

• domestic t*******t

• duolingo

• pen

• mr. congressman 🎵

• the fog

• the river 🎵

• you’ll never

5. the artistic process

• art 🎵

• collaborations

• duck under

• everything is borrowed 🎵

• intended audience 🎵

• no excuses

• what remains