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Carrying the Weight of Light: Poems on Memory and Becoming
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 1 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To remember is to live twice - once in experience, and again in the quiet after. Carrying the Weight of Light is a meditation on the tender gravity of memory, where love, loss, and becoming intertwine in the fragile fabric of time. In these poems, Lora Dickens traces the invisible lines between what we keep and what we must let go, revealing how light - even when heavy - teaches us to endure.
Through lyrical language and emotional honesty, Dickens explores how the past echoes within us: in the scent of rain on childhood soil, in the silence after heartbreak, in the moments when we almost forget who we were. Each poem is both elegy and awakening - a reminder that memory, though burdened with longing, is also the source of our illumination.
This collection moves through the cycles of grief, healing, and rediscovery with a voice that is intimate yet universal. It invites readers to pause, breathe, and listen for the small miracles hidden within their own remembering. To carry the weight of light, as Dickens shows, is to learn the art of tenderness - to find grace in endurance, beauty in imperfection, and hope in what remains.
Carrying the Weight of Light is not just a book of poems. It is a quiet companion for those who have loved deeply, lost greatly, and are learning, still, to become again.
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