My Honest PoemMy Honest Poem

A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. at six, my mother's boyfriendforced his fat hairy handinside my heart-shaped facefor eating too many Fruit Burstswe bought a tube of them at BPwrapped individually in pastel wax paperswhich littered the backseatlike sweet-smelling confettihis hand tastedof salta metallic tang of rustthe hot edge of petrolfrom the pump still lingeringon his fingersMy Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.