The Gatekeeper Wears Acrylics

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Beginning in the jungles of the heart The </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gatekeeper Wears Acrylics</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> takes the reader on journey through the shadows of loss trauma and growth as the narrator finds their way clear. With gut-punch imagery and wit poems like Tiger/Heart lay the groundwork for the narrator's travels. The reader is guaranteed an ending of self-realization but to lighten the load they will meet plenty of helpful characters along the way- including a wishful mouse a wise white rabbit unfortunate butterflies a grumpy feline and a super insistant dragon-lady from the title poem. The </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gatekeeper Wears Acrylics</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a transition from powerlessness to embodiment in bursts of color sure to ground the reader into the earth as well as leave a taste of hope behind.</span></p>