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Tambourine is a deeply personal collection that traces a life shaped by memory, loss, spiritual inquiry, and an enduring commitment to wholeness. Moving through childhood landscapes, family histories, intimate relationships, and moments of profound grief, these poems explore the fragile and resilient ways identity is formed and reclaimed. The natural world serves as both witness and teacher, reflecting the speaker’s evolving understanding of self, place, and belonging.

 

Rooted in spiritual exploration and lived experience, the poems weave personal mythology with raw emotional honesty, navigating miscarriage, separation, longing, and the small, quiet acts of survival that follow rupture. Throughout the collection, moments of tenderness and fierce self-reclamation emerge, revealing transformation not as a single event but as an ongoing conversation between past and present. Tambourine ultimately becomes a meditation on becoming whole — honoring the stories we inherit while daring to tell our own.