Between Shadow and Bloom (versification 2026)

In Between Shadow and Bloom, I'm tracing the quiet spaces where becoming begins, those fragile moments suspended between who we were and who we might dare to be.

Through a series of intimate, unguarded poems, this collection lingers in the soft tension between light and darkness: grief that softens into growth, longing that learns to breathe, and beauty that reveals itself in the most fleeting encounters.

Butterflies drift through these pages not as symbols of escape, but of transformation earned slowly, painfully, and with grace.

There is a stillness here, the black cat watching at the edge of the unknown, a bloom unfolding under a patient moon, reminding us that change does not arrive loudly.

It gathers in silence. It waits. It listens.

Tender and haunting, Between Shadow and Bloom is an invitation to sit with the in-between, and to discover that even in shadow, something within us is always reaching toward the light..

Entry for Versification 2026