These are poems for the quiet hours. For the parts of you that ache and mend in silence. For the days when the light feels far away, and the days you begin to remember how to open again.

When the children have grown and flown and aging parents need tending. When the shape of love changes, and you are left holding pieces you never expected to carry.

In this tender collection of poetic essays, Kate explores the soft and sacred space between grief and healing. With language that breathes and lingers, she invites you to slow down, to feel deeply, and to find grace in the quiet work of being a spirit housed in a human.