The Recovery: A Process
Chapbook
“I want to recover, yet I’m scared of doing so.”
The Recovery: A Process is a chapbook that contains ten poems, one of which was published in the third issue of Spray Paint Magazine. This collection captures the “slice of life” of someone living with a mental illness, such as depression.
Poetry on the Bookcase
Poetry Collection
if you wanna know more about me, then please, you should just ask.
Split up into three different parts—shelf one- the night watcher, shelf two- the poisonous antidote, and shelf three- the illusion of talk therapy—; Poetry on the Bookcase is a coming-of-age poetry collection about the effects and experience of an abusive relationship, suicide and suicide ideation, the mundane of everyday living, and the life before (and slightly after) that short-lasting romantic relationship.
Talk Therapy
Poetry Collection
They say not to let your heart bleed onto the pages, but here I am doing it anyway.
When my well is overflowing with star-covered words, my fingers bleed them out. They implant themselves on white or cream paper, crying out, wanting to be heard like a hungry child in the middle of the night. But then the words flutter away like a cabbage white butterfly during Spring.
They’re supposed to come back. I need them to come back.
Talk Therapy is an open letter that captures a sliver of what it’s like living with a mind that’s a black monster. Talk Therapy is also Angel-Clare Linton’s second poetry collection.
Bandages and Bullet Wounds
Poetry Collection
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it.
As I lay in my bed in the middle of the night with my blanket up to my chin, I wanted to hide from the world, away from the sea of never-ending dark blue ocean. I also wanted an escape, a freedom away from my current life that was a well of thick, black words, and I was at the bottom where I couldn’t see my way out and where people couldn’t hear my screams.
As I lay in my bed with my blanket up to my chin, I thought I wouldn’t make it in life since my life felt like a never-ending downstream river. I thought I’d die in that river before I’d be able to rise to the peak of a mountain, staring down at what I’ve accomplished.
I thought I wasn’t gonna make it, but now I’m going to try because trying and failing is better than not trying at all.
Bandages and Bullet Wounds is Angel-Clare Linton’s third poetry collection.