A poet accustomed to the dark
A challenge to wade through the hidden
An endeavor to hit the elusive mark
Be the difference in the world of the forbidden
Fifty poems crafted by a Gen-X mother
Spanning the spectrum from black to light
Fifty images drawn by her Gen Z daughter
A work of love, a collaborative delight
From finding solace in shadows
To moments of vulnerability
To creating stories through the throes
Of our body’s power and fragility
From confronting our feelings for Time
To surviving storms that willfully blew
To finding joy in the ordinary grime
To wishing for our lives to continue
Between Shadows and Lines
Lay stories the evoke emotions
Written with a soul free from the confines
Of society’s rigid expectations