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Page 2 of 7Poetry & Short Form
Unbelieved
Three people, one body each, and a doctor who does not believe any of them. Wren has endometriosis and waits seven years for a name. Theo has Crohn's disease and hides an ostomy from the person he loves. Odalys gets sick with a post-viral illness that never resolves into a diagnosis at all. Told through free verse, list poems, an erasure poem built from a real denial letter, and a villanelle-adjacent refrain that runs through the whole book, Unbelieved follows three invented people carrying real, researched patterns: the years it takes to be named, the paperwork that treats a body as a case to be proven, the online strangers who believe you before your own doctor does, and the particular guilt of a good day. A prose afterword grounds every real statistic used in the poems by name and source. This is not a cure narrative. It is a book about what changes when someone, finally, agrees with you.
By SikhoExplore this bookBedtime & Stories
The Same Moon
Poppy is six years old, and now she has two bedrooms. Some nights she sleeps at Mom's house, some nights at Dad's — and everywhere she goes, her moon light travels with her: a palm-sized crescent moon that glows warm gold at the press of a button, a gift from both her parents together, long before there were two houses at all. Across six gentle, true-to-life weeks, Poppy learns her new rhythm — the backpack that carries her moon light between homes, the bedtime words that mean the same thing in both places, a wise grandmother's reminder that the moon looks different depending on where you're standing but is always the same moon, and a night when a bad dream tests whether both houses can really feel just as safe. This is a bedtime story for the millions of young children today who fall asleep in two different rooms, and for the grown-ups who tuck them in — grounded in real guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Australian Parenting Website on what actually helps: a steady routine, a steady comfort object, and the plain reassurance that love does not divide when a family does. Nothing here explains why the houses became two. Everything here is about how safe, how loved, and how completely herself Poppy gets to feel in both of them.
