Through the years, I would sometimes feel a twinge of regret. Wishing I would have remembered to grab Santa and my ornaments before I left. But they were gone now. And I accepted it.
Sometimes bipolar episodes are dramatic situations with life or death hanging in the balance. Other times, you just send Christmas cards with a typo on them because you're too disassociated to pay attention to your own writing.
It feels like I have spent a lifetime searching for a place to call home. This time, I have my person, I have my kitty cats, and this will be the last piece.
Safe as Houses, due to be published early 2024, is a new poetry book from Star LaBranche. Themes include how physical homes we reside in effect us, marriage and compromise, and navigating trauma overlap on issues you never thought would overlap.