The Shape of What Stayed

The Shape of What Stayed is a poetry collection about the wounds we carry, the grief that lingers, and the slow work of learning how to live with what cannot be changed. Through poems about motherhood, childhood, trauma, guilt, loss, and healing. This collection explores the way pain can settle into the body and how tenderness can slowly teach it something new.

These poems look closely at what it means to survive the people you loved, grieve the life you thought you would have, and realize that healing does not always mean becoming whole again. Sometimes, it means learning how to live with what stayed and deciding what is still yours to carry.