Changing Tides: Poetry of Love, Loss and New Life

By Katy Hoover and TBD

In this time of universal loss, hear from one who has survived.

Hoover is an emerging voice that you will want to hear.

 "In the personal, private questioning, we are often without words or a way forward." voiced Hoover

"Changing Tides" gives words to those who live through disorienting, unimaginable loss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: May 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885903707

Katy Hoover

Katy Hoover is a registered nurse, mother of five, and grandmother of six. She has worked with human trafficking survivors as well as abused women and children. She loves spending time in nature, especially near a river, lake or the ocean. She also enjoys participating in poetry readings. She currently lives in Ventura, California with her "sweetest friend" and their dog. Changing Tides is her first book.

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JOURNEY

(A Prologue)

Have you ever been on a journey you didn’t want to take? I have. An indescribable time of suffering.

I walked at the ocean, wrote as I processed. It was a liminal journey of change. As I passed through this time of crisis and transition, I found treasures: choice, thin space, miracles, comfort and strength. I found love, so much to be thankful for.

It was not anything I wanted or imagined.

I survived, by surrender, believing that God sees beyond today into eternity. Trusting that God would not leave me so broken. That He would bring good from bad. I clung to family and friends.

I’m NOT OK with the death of my son Kody, but I have made room for it in my heart.

I have changed. As I changed, I needed strangers. I found another mom's group, an open mic, in The Listening Room. I found my sweetest friend.

As I shared my journey in freestyle poetry, I found that there are things in my experience that are universal: fear, pain and loss, strength, creative expression, and love.

My hope is, that in sharing these very personal, private moments, you too will experience God's presence, know that you are not alone, find peace in surrender, choose to make room to enjoy friendship and love…. see treasure.

The good, God brings, from bad.

Katy Hoover

A LIMINAL THING

(the space between who you were and who you are becoming)

I started nursing school

When I was 18

I have always been a nurse

Along with my need for

Compassion with action

Doing what I know to do

I’ve stopped at an accident site

Given CPR on the side of the I - 5

A rest stop outside Mammoth

First aid to stop bleeding

CPR mask on my key ring

Nursing bag in