Samantha Alleman

The Lightning Path: Poems of Scars, Stars & Second Chances (Second Unfinished Edition) is an evolving poetry collection by trans poet Samantha Alleman.

This edition presents 25 of a planned 50 poems, inviting readers into the living heart of the book as it continues to grow. Rather than a final monument, The Lightning Path is a journey in motion. Each piece captures a moment of becoming.

Through lyric, defiant, and tender verse, Samantha explores identity, queerness, disability, memory, love, humor, grief, nature, and resilience. After a neurological injury rerouted her life from the cockpit to the hospital ward, she turned inward, writing poems that balance vulnerability with fire.

Some poems ache.

Some laugh.

Some burn.

Together they trace what it means to rebuild a life without erasing what broke you.

This second unfinished edition is for readers who enjoy contemporary poetry, LGBTQ+ literature, healing narratives, and art that grows alongside its author. It offers not a conclusion, but a promise: the storm is still writing itself.