Poetry — A Powerful Antidote to Pain

As proven by the way a simple poem spoke to this woman’s trauma

This is the painting by Jamie Kay MacKenzie that accompanied my poem. Photo by author, used with permission.

I knew it was meant to be from the minute I was notified that I had won a place in the Art and Text contest of 2019 at the Norwalk Public Library, a place that was once my hometown and the public library — my sanctuary inside that hamlet.