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I wrote a chapbook and it got published!! I kept this on the down low for a while as final details were sorted out but it’s available today 🥳 Take a peek at the cover art and one of the poems included below! 

I’ve been writing for years now (If you didn’t know, now you know) and to finally have an actual collection put together and published has been a dream of mine forever. Working with @bottlecap-press has been a super smooth process and I’m so excited to have contributed to this indie press. 

I hope when I say this it is true, but "On the Diagonal" is only my humble beginning. It would be extremely supportive of you, whoever is reading this, to pick up a copy of my first solo published work. It would truly mean a lot to me. The link to purchase is here: https://bottlecap.press/products/diagonal  

Most of the poems in this collection were written in 2020, a few even earlier than that and a few from this year. I think the different time periods demonstrate a deeper level to the growth I’ve gone through as a writer, as my voice and poetic style has changed quite a lot over the course of my life. 

I’m so excited to be able to make this announcement tonight! I have published a poetry chapbook with @bottlecap-press!!!

I am so excited to release this information, especially to the writeblr community who has inspired me so much. This has been an amazing and humbling opportunity, and I’m so grateful to Craig from Bottlecap Press for all his hard work.

Embrace & Unravel is about trying to find yourself in other people, finding the right people, and convincing yourself you’ve moved on. These poems and short essay in this work explore the different feelings of angst and longing associated with what we consider love, what love looks like when it’s what we need, and the feelings associated with figuring life out.

Compiled over 3-4 years, these poems chronicle some of my thoughts and feelings as I learned more about myself and unlearned a lot about life as well. Though the poems mostly focus on love, processing all the emotions related to a coming-of-age era are at the heart of the scribblings in this book.

I kept in my sky

I Let it rain

tear drops stain

the window pane

from the pain that I hide

And the light starts to fade

behind my eyes...

It's insane

how fast time flies

Liquid rage

Cyanide Lies

fill my page

As I kill time

Tired inside

Feeling aged

A villain

Still enslaved

I fill this cage

I built from rage

Iron fireflies

As I wonder

is she still mine

Her ghost haunts my page

Exotic on the stage

Exorcize the demons

in my mind

Burn the sage

As I turn the page

before the stress inside

Becomes weaponized

And in seconds I

Release all the madness

I've kept inside

And after this disaster

Noone is left behind

To clean up

this mess of mine

And I've become

Dangerously numb

And unprotected

Unrecognized

In record time