The Poet Who Forgot Her Name
Poems for the Returning Self
This book began in the dark. These poems were written to mark the path back with a light — written as evidence that a woman can disappear slowly, notice the disappearance, and choose to return. That the returning is not a single moment, but a practice. And that the light was never gone — only unclaimed.
Structure
- The Forgetting — How a woman learns to disappear. Silence as survival. Obedience mistaken for peace.
- The Search — The ache that becomes a compass. Moon, wind, stars, dust. Something in the dark still breathing.
- The Remembering — Moonlight as recognition. The name returns — not spoken, but remembered. The self that was never lost, only unclaimed.
- The Return — A woman who walks back into her own light. Not as triumph — as arrival.
From the Prologue
The night found me
before I found myself.
She leaned close,
moon-breath trembling on my cheek,
and whispered, Child…
you have been gone too long.I tried to answer
but my voice was dust,
a forgotten language
tucked beneath my ribs.
So the stars spoke for me.
They pulsed like a broken heartbeat
trying to remember its rhythm.
Details
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 979-8-241-72353-6
- Published
- 2025
- Edition
- First
Award Consideration — 2026
- Eric Hoffer Book Award
- Nautilus Book Awards — Poetry
- Nautilus Book Awards — Heroic
Reader Response
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