Poetry often captures what prose cannot. The raw pulse of emotion, the quiet moments of reflection, and the unspoken truths that live inside us. Recently, two of my poems were published in A New Season: Poems for a World in Flux . They explore themes that some of us feel but rarely express openly—feeling out of place in a world that values speed, brightness, an abundance of technology, and noise. The other is about my private moments shared with the moon in the stillness of