Gather Light

Book 2: Gather Light Gather Light follows the breaking of silence with the tender, everyday labor of repair. These poems linger in the hush after rupture and listen for what answers back: the first unguarded laugh, a hand steadying a cup, sunlight pooling on a kitchen floor. Attuned to small daily victories and beginnings that almost hide inside ordinary moments, the collection honors how support arrives in unexpected places—through a neighbor’s nod, a late-night DJ, a text at the right hour, the soft insistence of a tree outside the window.