My grief poetry book, "I Look to the Mourning Sky"

After my Dad passed away in 2021, I had a friend tell me she thought writing would be a big part of my processing: she was right.

In the months that followed his death, I poured my pain into the notes section of my phone and wrote poem after poem.

The words overflowed from my broken heart day after day. It was my way of trying to begin processing and mak…