A Mouthful of Quite
Synopsis
The Weight I Carry Quietly is a poetry collection rooted in lived experience, tracing the interior life of survival across the body, motherhood, and systems that demand silence while inflicting harm. Moving through fracture, memory, protection, resistance, and return, these poems document what it means to endure-and to remain human-inside structures not built for safety.
This collection does not move in a straight line. It moves the way trauma does: through echoes, pauses, and sudden clarity. Some poems speak softly, others refuse restraint. Together, they chart the aftermath of abuse and institutional betrayal alongside the daily labor of raising children, defending boundaries, and reclaiming voice. The body appears not as an object, but as witness-remembering what was denied, holding what language could not.
Motherhood stands at the center of this work, not as idealized sanctity but as vigilance, devotion, and fierce protection. Love and survival coexist here, sometimes in conflict, often inseparable. The poems reckon with exhaustion, rage, and grief while also making space for strategy, dark humor, and the quiet intelligence required to keep going.
Written in varied forms-lyrical, plainspoken, mythic, and spoken-word cadence-this collection resists a single narrative because no single voice can contain lived trauma. Instead, it offers testimony: unpolished, unappeased, and intact.
The Weight I Carry Quietly is for survivors who were told to minimize themselves, for those punished for naming harm, and for anyone who has learned that insisting on safety is an act of courage. It is not a book about breaking-it is a record of endurance, and of the ongoing work of becoming whole.
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