What are the appropriate emotions. Even with a map, it was difficult to determine. An ache which means let go. If she didn’t have the thought, she wouldn’t have the feeling. Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama is a collection that invites the reader to consider the relationship between internalised beliefs and the development of illness, drawing on psychology texts and the language of self-help. Wheels fall off to create drama. Through wordplay, aphorism and inversion, these poems unfold and rebound to create a collage of melancholy and comic transformations. One thing leads to a mother. In their exploration of character traits and dramatic tropes, they resist fixed meanings, inviting the reader to reflect on their own experiences.