These poems rise from the in-between:where light and shadow meet, where grief sits beside joy, and where life’s mess becomes a kind of beauty. Phoenix Rainbow Butterfly writes as someone who has carried, reclaimed and discarded labels. A Black Indigenous American, born post-segregation in the Deep South; neurosparky (her term for neurodivergent), disabled, non-binary; yet always reaching toward a deeper belonging that transcends every box. Their work invites readers to pause, breathe, and remember their shared wholeness and collective joy and pain.
