A few years back, she was in a rough place. She had just moved to Seattle from Eugene to escape an abusive relationship. She didn’t have a job, and she found herself looking for a way to heal. She came up with the idea to take walks with different people who had also experienced heartbreak. She and the other person would leave from the old Hugo House on Capitol Hill to the spot where the heartbreak happened to this other person. Along those walks, some of which were all-day, multi-mile treks, Michelle listened to the other person’s story and turned their experience into a poem.