Soft Things That Survive

Soft things do more than survive.

They determine what survives.

In this collection of intimate, unguarded poems, Maria K. Jimmy explores the quiet strength that lives beneath womanhood. Through reflections on the body, memory, desire, shame, tenderness, and becoming, these poems give voice to emotions that are often carried in silence.

Drawing on images as elemental as water carving stone, breath moving through storms, and the enduring power of the womb that births the world, Soft Things That Survive reminds readers that softness is a force that shapes life itself.

Poetry has never belonged to rules. It owes no explanation for its shape, its pauses, or its silences. It exists to speak what is often held back and difficult to name. In spare, evocative lines, these poems reach women who have carried the weight of expectation and are learning to honour their voices, their desires, and their becoming.

Scattered through the book are the author's own simple, hand-drawn illustrations, offered in the same spirit of honesty, echoing the rawness and intimacy of the poems themselves.

For every woman who has ever questioned her softness, these poems offer a quiet reassurance. They are an invitation to sit with your own voice, your own becoming, and the strength that has always lived quietly within you.