I am most grateful for the perspective you share here on the power of poetry. While I have not used poetry in the process of healing trauma, metaphor emerged on its own in that process, and poetry is one context in which I explore that further.

I appreciate the way concision in poetry privileges ambiguity, and how that ambiguity can be a powerful tool in shifting perspective and experience.

Some of what you share reminds me of what Dave Snowden has referred to as "linguistic aporia," which also resonates with Helena Roth's use of the Swedish term "tankespjärn." It is about the paradoxical way in which the introduction of ambiguity can create a disruptive shortcut to clarity.

Glad to have found your work, thank you!