Barefoot Through Brambles: poems & essays for the loss of people, futures, bodies & belonging

Not all loss begins with death, and not all grief gets recognized when it comes.Barefoot Through Brambles is a collection of poems and short essays for the after: after the divorce, the diagnosis, the death, the betrayal, the estrangement, the dream that collapsed, the body that changed, the future that stopped showing up.This is a book for the part of life that continues after everything has changed. The dishes still need doing. The dog still needs food. The text still needs an answer. And somewhere under all that ordinary noise, something in you is still standing in the place where the floor gave way.Written with blunt honesty, tenderness, and dark little flashes of humor, these pieces stay close to grief as it is actually lived: in the body, in the mind, in memory, in ordinary days that keep arriving whether you are ready or not.This is not a book that tells you to move on, find closure, or turn your pain into something inspirational. It is a companion for anyone living inside what changed and trying to keep telling the truth about it. Read more