Beauty Born of Pain

ABOUT BEAUTY BORN OF PAIN: In this poetry collection... Experience the insidious pain that comes with relational trauma then, with the author, join on the journey of healing. Beauty Born of Pain contains four groupings of poetry. Secrets details the experience of an abusive marriage. Echoes deals with memories of childhood coming back once free of the relationship. Damage is about the lingering effects of the past on mind and body. The final section, Recovery, is about moving forward with hope and healing. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sally Quon is a disabled writer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, home of the Syilx people. She has been widely published in poetry and creative nonfi ction anthologies, and her photographs have appeared in several prominent magazines. In her spare time, Sally enjoys exploring the back roads near her home. Her blog can be found at: Featherstone-Creative.com When not engaged in other creative pursuits, Sally enjoys cooking, experimenting with Japanese Short Form, and curling up with a blanket and a cat. Her bucket list is entirely about bears. COLLECTION EXCERPT: Sorry Not Sorry I’m sorry but I don’t think I have anything to apologize for. It was you who raised your hand, a surprise in the night so often I stopped sleeping naked, because it made me more vulnerable. It was you whose tongue cut, with edges like slips of shale, the bite of a whip, bringing me to my knees. It was you who undermined every move, countered every effort, like a strategic game of Risk you didn’t need to win as long as I was the loser.