Humans are messy. Life is complex. I write about it.
Time, Change, and Other Things That Don’t Fit Into Boxes is a collection of poems and prose that speaks to the multifaceted and transient nature of life. It sheds light on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that shape different seasons of our ever-changing existence, and ultimately, imprint us forever.
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Mosaic (2020)
We’re all essentially mosaics. Living collections of small pieces that combine to make something incredible.
Mosaic is a collection of poems that highlights the beautiful, difficult, and often confusing aspects of finding our way into adulthood. Aspects that combine to create the imperfect and ever-changing masterpiece that we are.
Mosaic is a revelation that we can’t outrun life and all of its complexity. It’s an understanding that it all matters. It’s an exploration of moments, emotions, and earlier selves, and how they shape us into who we are. It underscores how everything we experience and everything we feel makes us unique, while also connecting us.
Our mosaic is what makes us who we are. Our mosaic is what makes us human.
Time, Change, and Other Things That Don’t Fit Into Boxes (2022)
If anyone ever says that life is simple, they’re lying.
Time, Change, and Other Things That Don’t Fit Into Boxes, is an honest look at the messy, the complex, the bittersweet. It's a reflective exploration of the gray areas of life — time, change, love, loss, uncertainty.
This collection highlights the things bubbling beneath the surface that we aren't always sure what to do with. They don’t really fit here, they don’t really fit there — all we know is that their existence affirms that we are living. And despite the inherent ache that often accompanies these enigmatic entities, they have a way of making life beautiful in all of their complexity and confusion. Some things are just too tender, too precious, too passion-filled to be packed away into boxes, and they’re surely too stubborn to give up making themselves known. Because the human experience isn’t one fit for boxes. So, try as we might to keep things neat, orderly, and contained, the stuff that really gives life meaning will always be anything but.
Time, Change, and Other Things That Don’t Fit Into Boxes is a collection of poems and prose that speaks to the multifaceted and transient nature of life. It sheds light on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences that shape different seasons of our ever-changing existence, and ultimately, imprint us forever.
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Sunday Mornings at the River is an independent poetry press run by poets for poets. They strive to provide a home for poets outside of traditional publishing. At Sunday Mornings at the River, they believe as Salman Rushdie wrote in The Satanic Verses, that a poet's work is "to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep." It is a complete honor to be featured in this collection alongside so many talented writers.
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About Me
I am based in Northern Virginia where I have published two collections of poetry. All my life, I never thought I would ever describe myself with the title of poet, author, or writer, but I’ve come to expect the unexpected. I truly believe something magical happens when you transform emotions and experiences into art that could mean something to someone else.
I'd scream it from the rooftops if I could, that I deeply wish the world was defined by less boxes and more overlapping spheres. Nostalgia is my Achilles' heel. It gets me every time. I am wholeheartedly convinced that music, dancing, laughing, and hugs from the right people are the remedies for most things that ail us. I’m learning that living a life is less of arriving at a destination and more of a never-ending journey with a lot of bumps in the road. I’m working on making peace with the difficult things, the things that are hard to swallow. It, like me, like most things, is a work in progress.
Little Details: Libra Sun. Cancer Rising. Capricorn Moon. Sky lover. South Jersey born and raised. HSP. JMU Alum. Fuji apple enthusiast.Taylor Swift is my love language.
