Paper Flowers picks up where Jessica Jocelyn’s best-selling poetry book Stars At Last left off, welcoming each reader into the chronicles of complex grief upon the untimely death of the author’s mother. From childhood trauma to toxic romantic relationships, the wounds run deep from only ever experiencing transactional “love” with conditions as a child. While the complexity of loss never truly leaves one’s heart, mind, and soul, reparenting oneself makes the rollercoaster journey less harrowing. This five-part collection of poems is for those determined souls who are grieving what never was and slowly healing by becoming the mother they always hoped for and needed as a child. Paper flowers may never bloom in the conventional sense, but each vulnerable page blossoms into a botanical garden of reassurance and self-empowerment.