Light Burst Through Needles: Poems

Light Burst Through Needles is a quiet, piercing chapbook that lingers in the spaces between hurt and healing. In these poems, Spencer Sheehan Kalina traces moments of tenderness, memory, and survival—where sharpness and softness exist side by side.

Rooted in the natural world and the body’s inner landscapes, this collection explores what it means to endure, to notice, and to let light in, even through the smallest openings.

Intimate and unflinching, Light Burst Through Needles invites readers to sit with fragility, and to discover the quiet strength that grows there.