New Poem Published on Verse Daily! (December 6, 2024)

My mom was a crisis counselor, so Christmas looked different in our house than in others. My mom, always on-call during holidays, saved lives instead of baking cookies. However, we found ways to create our own rituals. I'm so grateful to J.P. Dancing Bear and Verse Daily for featuring "Christmas (1988)," recently published in Crab Orchard Review. You can read it here!