A reflective piece using the metaphor of floating in water to explore living in the present. Water symbolizes the past, air the future, and the surface is now. It cautions against drowning in memories or leaping into worry, urging readers to find calm within to steady life’s turbulent waters, whether lake, ocean, or river. Includes imagery and a nod to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.

A found poem composed from MS Trust’s description of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). It mirrors the disease’s progression—shortening lines and fractured phrasing echo cognitive decline and aphasia—while honoring the poet’s mother, who died of PML. The piece foregrounds harsh clinical language to convey the illness’s cruelty and the tension between hope and a grave prognosis.

A reflective piece using a river metaphor to explore personal change. Like rivers that can be dammed, redirected, or naturally shift course to form oxbow lakes, people can change over time. Through steady effort—building good habits and eroding old ones—identity reshapes gradually, showing transformation is possible but requires patience and diligence.