MST (Military Sexual Trauma)

Gillian Harris-Dale

I began writing poems in 1996, which was a year of transformations that began with separation from my verbally and emotionally abusive ex-husband. While I was functioning as a single married woman for numerous years, I was not literally a single mother of four young children. Many years of verbal and psychological abuse began to flow out on paper. Eventually, I realized that trauma was not the only emotion being bottled, but so was fear, hope, anxiety, love, anger, and every human emotion. Therefore, words began to flow from me whenever I was trying to make meaning out of the significant events in my life, such as the death of a child, failing first marriage, finding true love, and aging. Allowing my emotions to flow out of me onto paper into the forms of poetry allows me to release overwhelming emotions that would otherwise consume me. more…

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