Every Feeling I Could Name

What if we had better language for our inner lives?

Most of us learn the names of colors long before we learn the names of emotions. We can tell the difference between crimson and pink, between the gray of a cloudy morning and the darker gray of rain about to fall. But when someone asks how we feel, the answers often collapse into a handful of familiar words: good, bad, fine, tired.

Every Feeling I Could Name is a poetic exploration of the emotional vocabulary we carry—and the many feelings t...