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Flowers in the Garden

flowers in the garden is a hybrid chapbook of poetry and prose in which eight plants are given voices; and what they say is not what you expect. Poppy speaks of morphine and mercy and the thin line between relief and ruin. Chamomile tends the grief you don't want witnessed. Motherwort holds what the body has learned to lie about. Nightshade doesn't apologize for being misread. Yarrow grows on battlefields and teaches the wound to close itself. Each plant carries a history—medicinal, mythological, emotional; and each one becomes a mirror for something deeply human: pain, abandonment, endurance, the long work of healing. The writing moves between lyric prose and spare poetry, unhurried and precise, rooted in the belief that the natural world has always had a language for what we cannot say directly. This is not a botanical study. It is a garden where everything is listening. 28 pages. Eight plants. One invitation. Published by Thistle & Thread Press, Wisconsin.

Genres

Poetry (Poetic works by one author)

ISBN

9798899658365

Format

Print / Paperback

Contributor

Tyler Tittle

Author, Editor, (various roles)

Tyler Steven Tittle is a writer, poet, and creative force behind Thistle & Thread Press, an independent publishing house rooted in storytelling, survival, and the sacred act of giving voice to what's often left unheard. His work blends raw emotional depth with mythic and natural symbolism, exploring themes of grief, healing, identity, and reclamation. He often writes in hybrid forms, merging poetry, prose, and free verse to reflect the nonlinear process of becoming. With a background in integrative health and a lifelong reverence for the natural world, Tyler draws inspiration from medicinal plants, folklore, and personal experience. His writing is as much an offering as it is a reflection, meant to hold space for those in mourning, in pain, or in bloom. His first chapbook, Flowers in the Garden, personifies healing herbs and wild weeds as emotional archetypes, each speaking to the body and the soul in their own tongue. Tyler is passionate about accessible art, grassroots publishing, and giving a platform to underrepresented voices. Through Thistle & Thread, he aims to grow a space where stories are nurtured, where beauty doesn't require permission, and where small presses can still leave a lasting imprint. He currently lives in the Midwest, surrounded by trees, tea, and too many notes in his phone. When he isn't writing, he's building community, tending to his own garden, or dreaming up the next offering to leave at the altar of language.

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