Hourglass Harlequin is a book of poetry that celebrates and investigates the mundane. Written not too far off the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hourglass Harlequin ventures to explore what has real meaning in a world gripped and characterized largely by choice paralysis, a constant itch for material comforts, and fear of the unknown. The speaker hones in on the details that compose daily life as a way to not only appreciate them, as they form the kaleidoscope of existence, but to use the meditation on those moments as tools for grounding herself in a world full of constant change and chaos.

The speaker expresses that while a storm may rage on in the external world, that same storm does not need to reside in one’s internal landscape. Hourglass Harlequin explores how if we are able to be as present as possible in the small moments that compose daily life, rather than move through them as quickly as we can, to get them over with, it is in that presence we have cultivated that we can find our personal power.