A lifetime’s reckoning gathers in 180 poems. Swindel glides through pain, love and renewal with unflinching grace, crafting language that cuts and heals in the same breath. Each poem is a step through mud towards light, and testament to the unsung heroism of keeping going. 

From the raw landscapes of grief and abuse, to the healing sanctuaries of nature, art, and remembrance. This is poetry forged in survival: fierce, tender, and defiantly alive. A circle completes - and begins again - in this deeply human collection of wounds made into words.

Jules Swindel is an artist, very occasional potter, photographer and poet. These poems are the culmination of her ramblings through mystery, mediocrity and motherhood.