indianacarraway
Shattered Pieces of the Doll is a raw and haunting poetry collection that dissects girlhood, trauma, longing, shame, devotion, and the fragile architecture of identity. Each poem represents a shard of porcelain: sharp, reflective, and delicate. The collection moves between themes of religious guilt and hypocrisy, obsessive love and unfaithful longing, childhood innocence and its theft, self-image and the pressure to be desirable, and the quiet horror of isolation within one's own mind. Recurring imagery of ghosts, storms, snow, mirrors, angels, monsters, and haunted houses creates a dreamlike atmosphere where memory and reality blur. The speaker shifts between victim and vixen, sinner and saint, muse and monster, capturing the complexity of womanhood shaped by betrayal, desire, shame, and survival. There is an aching nostalgia for "the good old days," a yearning to return to purity, to feeling, to something unbroken. Yet beneath the despair runs a current of self-awareness: a recognition of addictive love, inherited guilt, fractured faith, and the hunger to be chosen. At its core, Shattered Pieces of the Doll is about fragmentation-of identity, innocence, faith, and love, and the painful attempt to gather those pieces back together. It is intimate, unflinching, and deeply human: a portrait of a girl becoming a woman while wrestling her ghosts, her memories, and the echoes of who she used to be.