Tender, Unkempt Book and guide you back home

and guide you back home to you

This book is a quiet journey through sorrow toward the light

this book will feel like a mirror to your soul

When a parrot discovers the power of listening

It is a tribute to the beauty of every relationship we cherish

Tender, Unkempt Book and guide you back homeWritten in raw free verse, the collection explores love that arrives with conditions, homes that could not hold, and the slow unlearning of shame. It is a book about rememberinghow the body remembers what the mind tries to forgetand about healing that feels more like letting go than triumph. This collection is for readers who find themselves in silence, in softness, in the ache of becoming someone new. For those who have been told they are wise beyond