Glass Houses
Photo by moniek van rosse on Unsplash
03.29.26| Vol. 57, No. 6 | Poetry
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I built
a greenhouse              around
myself
to wander a world
I curated with
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          l
          l
           s, and waveless
   pools.
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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.
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They may be right.
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I may be mistaken.
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But their world is full of
shadows.
And I would rather
stay
where the butterflies
sing.
No avatar available for user with id .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.

