meraki
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I'm back and I brought my trauma with me.
"Meraki" features a series of mostly free verse (non-rhyming) poems about emotional and psychological domestic abuse and the effects of childhood bullying.
WARNING: Some of the topics mentioned above may be sensitive for some readers.
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