Come Out Lit

What does it take to finally step into your own light? Come Out Lit traces one answer — through poems that dig beneath practiced smiles, aching bodies, and the selves left behind at every crossroad. A girl meets her younger self over melting ice cream. A house collapses to reveal what it was hiding all along. A voice insists, again and again, that everything is fine — until it isn't. Moving between confession, symbol, and quiet resolve, this collection doesn't rush toward healing. It earns it, one poem at a time, arriving somewhere brighter, sturdier, and entirely her own.