Botanica Obscura [Visual Poetry]

"Botanica Obscura: Garden Between the Moon and Shadows"
This collection of poems explores the liminal spaces between night and dawn, vulnerability and strength, despair and resilience. Written exclusively during the hours between 10 PM and 5 AM, these pieces emerge from what the author calls "when the borders between spirituality and reality run thin."

The work is structured around lunar phases—Waxing (Becoming), Full (Entanglement), and Waning (Release)—with each poem anchored by a plant that serves as both title and thematic foundation. From "Yarrow" through "Bleaching a Black Dahlia," the collection traces a journey through vulnerability, crisis, and the possibility of renewal.

The visual presentation emphasizes the individual nature of each piece while maintaining connection to the whole—reflecting how personal healing often happens in discrete moments that accumulate into larger transformation. The final prose piece, "Field Notes: Untitled," shifts perspective to suggest hope beyond personal struggle.

This project demonstrates how poetry can serve as both documentation and companionship through difficult psychological terrain, using natural imagery to ground abstract emotional experiences in something tangible and familiar.