Hi Friends, 

This has been a big summer for me. On July 19th I graduated with my MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Along with my cohort, we celebrated three years of hard work and dedication. 

There has been a lot of celebrating, a little traveling, and mostly finding my way back to some semblance of a routine. 

With Love, 

Kerry (she/her) 

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​Past Events:

Attended in August: 

• ​Kenyon Hall Cabaret 

​Published in August 2026:

• The Haiku Foundation: Haiku Dialogue, August 19th 2026

new love
he memorizes
her coffee order 

• when I google 'does SAPHO syndrome refer to the poet Sappho?', Silly Goose Press, Silly Summer Web Series, August 17th 2026

• Prune Juice, Issue 49, August 1st, 2026

bronze lion
the king of beasts
shows his patina 

Current Therapist's Book Club Selection:

I belong to a book club with other therapists, though we rarely read anything related to therapy. We gravitate toward nonfiction, mystery/suspense/thriller, and upmarket fiction and take recommendations. 

The Wedding by Vandana Nair

"Dr. Ahilya Kapoor dreads heading to her hometown in India for the lavish wedding of Radhika, her young cousin, who's captured the bachelor of the season. Entangled between two worlds, Ahilya's independent career as an epidemiologist for the WHO causes constant friction with her family's desire for her to 'settle down and marry.' During the festivities, Ahilya finds herself drawn to a handsome cardiologist from London. She envisages the possibility of a future that weaves her two worlds in harmony. But, just as things start going well, a mysterious illness sweeps through the gathering and Ahilya is wrapped up in events that will change everyone’s lives. Full of sharp wit, familial drama, cultural clashes, and unexpected encounters, The Wedding explores the complexities of tradition and modernity, and the universal search for love and belonging in a time of transition and turmoil."
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Dead Haijin: 

With body and soul
this skinny little mantis
met every struggle
​
Issa​

​Dead Poet: 

but I to you of a white goat

​and I will pour wine over
​
Sappho 

Vintage Art: 

Quote to Remember:

"The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them."
-Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees ​

Hi Friends, 

As a Gemini, I love change. June is a time of many transitions: the school year comes to a close, spring becomes summer, and the light peaks before turning towards the dark. 

This is also a transition time for me. In July I will graduate with my MFA in Creative Writing. It's a bittersweet moment. There is relief in completing three years of consistent work, but sadness in the program coming to an end. 

Though, endings are also beginnings. I'm starting to imagine my post-MFA life. I'm in the early stages of merging my love of therapy and creative writing. 

With Love, 

Kerry  

Published in June 2026:

• Wild Roof Journal, Issue 34, Summer 2026: ketamine dive number six 
• The Haiku Foundation: Haiku Dialogue, June 17th, 2026 
  

waves crashing 
on the rocks--
tequila sunrise
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​Community Card Pull: 

What is important for you to know right now? 

​Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

Card: The modern interpretation of the Ace of Pentacles is abundance, manifestation, opportunity, prosperity, especially related to career or finances.​

Dead Haijin: 

Under such a calm
spring moon, even the tortoise 
crows this season? 
​
Issa​

​Dead Poet: 

]invites
]all not
]feast
]for Hera
]
]as long as
]
]

Sappho 

Vintage Art: 

​If you've visited this space before, you may notice a new name for the monthly posts. My intention is to shift my focus to writing and writing as a conduit for emotional healing. At some point I hope to also publish these posts as a newsletter on Substack, so over the next few months I will be trying a new format. 

I recently took a Therapists Who Tarot training with Dreya Bloom. I was already interested in Tarot & oracle cards, but this took it to an 11. I've already purchased multiple decks and have been drawing a card every day on my Instagram. So, I thought I would do a community pull every month and post it here. I'll share information on the card and the deck.

Though not yet realized it has also been a dream to start a Little Free Library. I will update you here on my progress. 

As usual, I will post the groups I will be facilitating, classes or trainings I attended, and any recent publications. Along with the books I'm reading or completed in the past month and some of my favorite haiku, poetry, music, and quotes. 

Enjoy. ​

​Community Card Pull: 

What is important for you to know right now? ​

Deck: The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot

Card: The modern interpretation of the High Priestess represents the unknown, mystery, intuition, spiritual knowledge, and the subconscious mind. ​

My Little Free Library: 

(Doesn't exist yet) but it will soon. My plan is to have a Little Free Poetry Therapy Library to bring together my loves of personal exploration and poetry. I hope to find ways to bring more attention to poetry and the ways reading & writing poetry is therapeutic. 

Books I Finished in January: ​

• The Wedding People by Alison Espach 

Current Book Club Selection: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi 
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"His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers.

Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their "rightful owners." With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered." ​

Haiku: 

snow melting . . .
the village floods
with children!
​
Issa​

​Dead Poet (replace): 

After great pain, a formal feeling comes (372) 
by Emily Dickinson 

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'
And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –


This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –​

Vintage Art: 

​Song on Repeat: Undiscovered by Ashlee Simpson

"I can't try any harder than I do
All the reasons I gave, excuses I made for you
I'm broken in two" 
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Quote to Remember: "You think I’m not a goddess? Try me." - Margaret Atwood