Bubbles and Butterflies Drifting Over the Strawberry Patch

This is a poetry collection about grief, motherhood, survival, and the slow work of becoming yourself again after loss.

Written in the aftermath of losing a child, these poems follow the interior life of a woman learning how to keep living, not by getting over the pain, but by learning how to carry it. The work moves through maternal grief, trauma, spiritual disillusionment, and resilience, and sits with the uncertainty of loving deeply in a world that offers no guarantees.

Rooted in a confessional tradition, the poems are shaped by loss, responsibility, and change. They reflect on motherhood, womanhood, and identity, and on the tension between giving yourself to others and trying to find your way back to yourself. There are no answers here and no clean resolutions. The poems stay with sorrow and allow it to exist alongside tenderness, anger, gratitude, and strength.

This is not a book about moving on.

It is a book about staying.

Staying present in grief.

Staying connected when faith begins to falter.

Staying alive when survival has already taken so much.

Written for readers drawn to grief poetry, elegiac and feminist work, and poems about death, love, and endurance, this collection is especially for those whose losses are intertwined with motherhood, and for anyone trying to live honestly in the long aftermath of loss.

For those who have loved deeply, lost irrevocably, and are still here, this book stands as a witness.

Grief is an isolated journey but also a universal one. This book invites you to be seen when all feels lost.