Carving The Path: This book is a poetry and prose experience that journeys through the metaphysical landscapes of the self towards the heart.

There is a corridor in the mind worn smooth by repetition — the same thought, the same scream swallowed, the same door closing softly enough to sound like love. She walked that corridor for twenty-three years. These poems are what she scratched into the walls when she finally stopped following it. They are not beautiful. They are true. And the truth has teeth.Carving the Path is the first book in the Sowelu Studios trilogy — a collection of poems written from the floor, from the body, from the long walk out of a life that was never hers.These are not poems about healing. These are poems about what it costs to stay alive long enough to begin.Drawing from the gothic lyricism of Poe, the mythic fire of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and the raw confessional tradition of Sharon Olds and Sylvia Plath, Wharton writes with a voice that shakes and holds still at the same time.For anyone who swallowed the scream. For anyone who counted exits instead of heartbeats. For anyone still carving. Read more