title: Pick Your Poison: Poetry Collection on Addiction and Recovery (Volume 1)
author:  Denise Walker 
description: Denise Walker lives along the river valley in downtown Edmonton, AB. She made her literary debut in 2016 with her dystopian thriller, 'Cedar Valley'. From then on she has focused her attention on creating 'Pick Your Poison', her first ever Poetry Collection featuring poems on addiction and recovery. Her sober journey began Spring of 2017 and she has since found solace in writing poetry, meditation, and nurturing her fiddle leaf fig tree, Figgie. She works full-time as an Emergency Communications Officer at Ambulance Dispatch. In between shifts she enjoys brewing kombucha, binge-watching TV, and lusting after her next travel destination.
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  Autumn Cocaine 
  a poetry book 
   
   
  Mitrea Robert 
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Where you walk it turns autumn and evening, 
   
        Georg Trakl, from Poems and Prose 
  
   
   
   
  Discovering Autumn Cocaine 
     (a season and a state of mind) 
   
   
   
   
  Apocalypse is a personal hell, a constant fear of losing someone you don't 
  even have. Sometimes, Love is the end of the world, a place of despair, fear, and 
  misery, which consumes everything and, eventually, kills you. After everything is 
  gone, comes the realization that every death is just another form of rebirth. 
   
   
   
  Collision = A collision is the event in which two or more bodies exert 
  forces on each other in about a relatively short time.  
  This chapter describes a new beginning, a change of heart, rebuilding yourself 
  from the idea that hope springs eternal. The purest form of love becomes a 
  constant in your life, a rope knot you hold on to until the falling turns into 
  another form of flying. 
   
   
   
  Freed is the ultimate phase of