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Poet • Writer • Late Bloomer

Words for the
Messy Middle

For women still becoming. Honest poetry and prose that meet you where you are and gently remind you of the artist within.

What is a flower before she blooms?
Resilience rising
Hope conspiring
Breathing life, however turbulent
Into the seeds
Taking in water and
Turning thoughts into things.

— from "Taking in Water"
Britt Matthews
Britt Matthews

Hey, I'm Britt.

I didn't find my voice until my forties. Before that, I was caught in a cycle of people-pleasing, shifting myself to fit whatever role I was in.

A health scare led me back home. I changed careers, reconnected with family I had never met, and somewhere in that unraveling, I rediscovered poetry—and my own voice.

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"Wildflowers don't care where they grow." — Dolly Parton

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