From The Gut: Poems That Trace A Life Rerouted By Illness And Surgery

From The Gut is a collection of poems written in the shadows of operating rooms, sleepless nights, and quiet moments spent wondering what comes next.Born from the same place as Guts Without Guts, these pieces trace a path through the wreckage and recovery of a life rerouted by Inflammatory Bowel Disease and J-Pouch surgery.Some are blunt, others barely whisper, but all come from the same place—the gut. Not the one I lost, but the one I kept: the one that holds fear, fury, memory, and meaning.This is what it sounds like when healing isn’t clean.When survival leaves a scar.When poetry bleeds. Read more