Beauty Beyond the Waterfalls of Life

BEAUTY BEYOND THE WATERFALLS OF LIFE is a collection of poems that reflects the author’s stark reality. Against a backdrop comprising a maelstrom of pain, she unflinchingly catalogs myriad bleak and vile events. Populated by death, physical and sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, suicide attempts, mental illness, and the oppressive nature of the American judicial system, this book details horrors that would have broken a weaker person. But the author perseveres, often turning to the L...