New Poem: Reflecting on Tragedy while an Ocean Away from Home

TRIGGER WARNING: gun violence and collective grief.

A few weeks ago, I head about (yet another) gun violence tragedy in the US. This one happened 15 minutes from my parent's house. At a school I knew. One where I knew people who had attended, where I even knew staff members. One that I have driven past countless of times.

I don't normally write about these kinds of things, but this time (after several days of feeling caught up in the secondhand grief of it all) I did.

​Check out the full poem here: "Reflection on Tragedy While an Ocean Away".