"When I was a child, afraid in the back seat,
I could rest my head against the glass
and feel her heartbeat racing with mine."

In 'Blood Rite & Other Poems', Maggie unearths the fragments of memory, family, grief, and self-discovery. Moving through the remnants of childhood, the fractures of trauma, and the reckoning of what comes after, this collection explores the quiet hauntings of the past and the way they shape the present.

With evocative language and raw honesty, Maggie navigates the spaces between longing and loss, tenderness and pain, nostalgia and transformation. Whether examining the weight of inherited objects, the echoes of relationships, or the body as both witness and survivor, these poems remind us that even in absence, something always remains.

"I want to feel pain in the rasping, screaming way of a child.
I want to feel joy so fiercely I cry."

For readers who have ever lived in the spaces between past and present, memory and reality, grief and growth-this collection is for you.