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Poems From a Borderline Heart is a brutally honest poetry collection about living with mental illness, surviving trauma, and finding your way back to yourself.
Ashley Gannon writes for the parts of you that had to grow up too fast, and the parts of you still learning it’s okay to stay. Her work holds space for the messy middle: the spirals, the survival, and the quiet victories that don’t look like victory… until they do.
This book is a collection of poems that tell the truth out loud: what it feels like to be misunderstood, to fight your own mind, to crave love and safety, and to keep going anyway. It’s for readers who need to feel seen, and for anyone learning that survival is not the end of the story.
Some insults don’t sound like insults at first. They arrive dressed up as advice—calm down, don’t be so sensitive, you’re overreacting—and over time they harden into a private law: keep your feelings small, keep your needs quiet, keep your heart from spilling into the room. But “too much” is never really about volume. It’s about […]
A lot of books want to be understood. This one wants to be heard. One of the first things you notice in Ashley Lynn Gannon’s Poems from a Borderline Heart is how often it changes who is speaking to whom—and how that shifting address becomes its own emotional technology. The collection opens with a poem […]
There’s a particular kind of relief that doesn’t look like relief at all. It doesn’t burst into laughter or resolve into some cinematic peace. Sometimes it arrives as a word—clinical, bureaucratic, heavy at first with other people’s assumptions—and then, slowly, as you turn it over in your palms, it begins to warm. In Poems from […]
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