oetry collection on finding hope while grieving ambiguous loss. Carter's poems explore the tension of love and loss, strength and pain, despair and hope. The book is divided into four sections: Shock, Reckoning, Peripheral Losses, and Permission. These sections and their poems both mirror and question the conventionally understood process of grief. This collection invites the reader to reckon with loss and rediscover hope, Even In The Grief.

Mourn by peeling

Petal by petal

All that you thought would be

There comes a day when the flower is bald

Unrecognizable

Much like me