Glass Houses

I built a greenhouse around myself to wander a world
Maeve Slattery | Contributor

03.29.26
| Vol. 57, No. 6 | Poetry

 

I built

a greenhouse                           around

myself

to wander a world

I curated with

n  b

i        o

a              w

r                        s,

 

w

a

      t

         e

      r

      f

        a

           l

           l

            s, and waveless

   pools.

 

Although battles wage beyond

glass walls claiming I am

bro/ken,

I move gracefully,

emPOWERed,

knowing I am now

more truly mySELF than I

ever     have        been.

 

They may be right.

 

I may be mistaken.

 

But their world is full of

shadows.

And I would rather

stay

where the butterflies

sing.

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Maeve Slattery

Maeve is a fourth year honours psychology student at VIU where she is a lab coordinator for the Fear & Anxiety Research Lab and a peer-support learning leader. Off-campus, she works as an inclusive education teacher and volunteers at the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society. Prior to attending VIU, she publishedCelebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas(a children’s daily activity book), a stand-alone novelGrafted Togetherbased on her experiences in Zimbabwe, as well asGuarding Damiana,the first book of a YA trilogy that desperately went on hold after she started taking psychology courses. Other projects in the vault include a children’s picture book series and a young reader’s novel series. She is planning to attend graduate studies in clinical psychology, so it looks like those writing projects will be staying in the vault for another 6 years. In the meantime, she continues to write poems, songs, and statistical analyses for research projects.

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