Phantom Limbs

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part celebration part elegy </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Phantom Limbs </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>is about living fully arms wide open despite or perhaps even because of repeated loss. Each depiction is grounded in survival and yet there is often unanticipated joy juxtaposed with heartbreak as the collection reveals intimate moments from childhood trauma to marriage divorce parenting terminal illness disability caregiving widowhood remarriage-mortality itself. These poetic encounters are a reminder that while every literal or metaphorical birth signals an unpredictable and inevitable end endings themselves often have the greatest capacity to impart beauty and knowledge. Just as each poem in </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Phantom Limbs </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>closes with hope the collection itself reverberates with the belief that while life may sometimes become a jagged quest for survival it is also always something to savor and embrace.</span><span style=color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>remarriage mortality itself. These poetic encounters are a reminder that while every literal or metaphorical birth signals an unpredictable and inevitable end endings themselves often have the greatest capacity to impart beauty and knowledge. Just as each poem in Phantom Limbs closes with hope the collection itself reverberates with the belief that while life may sometimes become a jagged quest for survival it is also always something to savor and embrace.</span></p>