Written in the aftermath of relapse, Mother Needle is a poetry collection that confronts the reality of loving a parent lost to addiction. With raw imagery and brutal honesty, these poems explore abandonment, grief, and the moments that linger long after a childhood ends. Mother Needle is for readers who grew up too fast, learned love in fragments, and are still learning how to let go.

Tea Stains & Cigarettes is a collection of poems that illustrate a sense of reality through the lens of mental illness, heartbreak, past traumas, love, and loss. B. L. Graves paves the path down memory lane with a mixture of her own hardships and happy moments with poems that anyone can relate to within their own lives.

Narrated by Aracelis Gotay