Bio
S.N. Walker is a poet from Hendersonville, NC, crafting visceral explorations of survival, identity, memory, and dissociation. She is currently completing her debut collection, Soular System: Poems to We from Me, which interrogates the fractured galaxy of her late-diagnosed Dissociative Identity Disorder, with each planet as an alter. These submitted poems—one a scream into the void, the other an interrogation of traumatic memory—exemplify her signature style: words served hot. All of Walker’s poems are driven by her process: every word is written and edited within 48 hours—before she forgets the feeling.
Security questions make me nervous
What’s the name of your first childhood pet?
You mean the one
we had to give away to another home?
I hid from her gnashing teeth under the bed.
What’s your childhood best friend’s name?
You mean the one
whose father who beat his child to a pulp?
We’re not friends anymore.
What is the name of the street you grew up on?
You mean the one
that got foreclosed on, when I was 16?
I got my first job on my birthday that year.
What was the name of your 8th grade math teacher?
You mean the one
who devised a word problem using my absences?
She told me I was wasted potential.
What was the make and model of your first car?
You mean the one
my friend’s dad sold me for $6k?
I didn’t know the frame was bent.
Where did you meet your spouse?
You mean the one
who put me in the hospital twice with his words?
I’d rather not say.
Security questions make me nervous.
Not because I don’t know the answers,
Because I don’t want to remember them
I’ve fallen into a black hole—again
I don’t struggle to escape this time—
weightlessly—soundlessly—fruitlessly.
No one can hear my primal howls
in the space between my system’s planets.
I can’t help but be afraid of absolute void.
Who am I? Where am I? In what time?
My mind is tv static, buzzing—no signal.
What can I do? Scream—until I can hear me.
I hope you enjoyed her poems.
Thank you again to all contributors to Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku. Thank you to everyone who bought and spread the word. It has been at the top of the charts in the US and Japan for almost a week. While we continue to donate to neighborhood libraries and places that use therapy through art, we encourage you to do the same.
Again, special thanks to the Japanese painter Hikari, who did the cover art for the anthology, and to the Japanese artist Naoki Kimura for his artistic photos included in the anthology.
This is the last night picture from Amazon Japan.
Below is the link where you can get Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku
Thank you.
Exciting Success: All Books published by Literary Revelations have become #1 Amazon Top Releases and/or #1 Bestsellers!
wow, palpable, honest and raw, Gabriela… Bravo to her! ❤️
indeed!
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Thank you for sharing this wonderful poet’s work, Gabriela. The first poem felt like a punch in the gut. Cleverly written, evocative, and powerful. And Congrats on Tranquility! 💞
Thank you Lauren too. Her p[poems are very powerful indeed. As for Tranquility I am in heaven. Congratulations to everyone!
Thank you so much for selecting my work to be published! If anyone is interested in reading more, you can find me on Instagram at @snw.writes — I am now publishing as S.N.W.