<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the moon grows from a sliver to a full moon then waning til the dark night sky is empty again so does love.&nbsp;</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Love Me Ugly&nbsp;</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>expresses these different phases and layers of love not only singing songs of happiness and contentment but bringing light to the rawness it holds.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The heart is not always telling of the blooming romance but also the destruction the chaos the thrill the loneliness the ugliness all of it. Caitlin Davis-Ruiz presents her collection of poems conveying the message of empowerment around not so pretty thoughts and feelings encouraging the reader to not be ashamed of&nbsp;</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>all&nbsp;</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of who they are and that the most important relationship of&nbsp;</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>all</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;is the one you have with yourself. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>