Still Soft, Standing: Poems on Healing, Humor, and Becoming Whole Again

Still Soft, Still Standing is the next chapter after survival. It's the quiet breath after the storm - the laughter after the tears - and the soft place you find within yourself when you finally stop apologizing for how deeply you feel things.In her second poetry collection, Parker Marsh (author of Blackout Blue) returns with her trademark honesty, wit, and raw emotion. These poems explore what comes after the pain - the healing, the humor, the nostalgia, and the gentle strength that follows being broken open.Moving through childhood memories, religious trauma, mental health, love, and self-rediscovery, Parker reminds us that softness and strength aren't opposites - they coexist beautifully.Because healing doesn't make you hard. It makes you whole.Still soft. Still standing.