JOSEPH BRINDLEY: AUTHOR OF DARK VERSES
Trauma and healing whisper in the verses of Joseph Brindley.Discover the haunting beauty of his poetry and the upcoming collection, “Black Butterflies”, coming this Summer!
COMING SOON: "BLACK BUTTERFLIES"
A collection of poems exploring trauma, healing, and the fragile beauty found in darkness. Poems of survival, resilience, and the beauty that endures.
ABOUT JOSEPH BRINDLEY
Joseph Brindley is a poet and writer whose work is marked by its exploration of dark themes and its search for beauty within pain. His upcoming chapbook, ‘Black Butterflies: The First Butterfly,’ is a testament to the enduring power of the human spirit and the struggle with living though years of abuse.
A TASTE OF MY WORK
Fear doesn’t live—it infests,
burrowing, breaking, bleeding faintly
through years, under tendon, across stillness.
Five black butterflies—
sopping, cobwebbed wings smeared
in rust, in grit; in seeping ichor, and oils—
mottle and stain my silence forever.
excerpt from: “Black Butterflies”