The Book Nook Chronicles

Poem inspired by Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

I need to work on my confidence. Everyone 
prefers a woman who doesn't know her power; 
I'm sick of all that.

People don't find it very endearing,
a woman who puts herself first. No one
is a  saint.
(we're all whores really, in some way or another.)

I was beautiful. But it didn't mean anyone
loved me. It's not my place
to go making up the rules.
Love can be ugly.

I still hear your voice in my head—
deeply, deeply human. I fall into happiness
like taking my bra off at the end of the day.
A star is forever and always
a star.