Using My Eyes

Tender, reflective, and deeply human, Using My Eyes invites readers to look more carefully at those they love. Inspired by artists including Sara Bareilles, Lana Del Rey, and Olivia Rodrigo, and drawing on cathedrals, paintings, photographs, and ordinary family memory, these poems form a contemporary lyric sequence that explores seeing, longing, family, faith, forgiveness, and the courage of staying. Together, they suggest that love is not something we find, but something we build—through the quiet courage of choosing one another, again and again.