We Chose Repair

We Chose Repair
Poems on Fracture, Complicity, and the Work of Repair
For readers seeking the sharper, more emotionally exposed side of the series.

Some wounds are personal.
Some belong to a country.

Some have been waiting, wordless, for generations. 

Sometimes you are the first to name them.

We Chose Repair is a contemporary literary poetry collection rooted in lived experience, moving through family fracture, national division, addiction and recovery, religious trauma, generational silence, and the quiet courage of staying present when leaving would feel easier.

These poems bear witness to:

• a brother rebuilding his life after addiction

• a service worker absorbing public cruelty and emotional labor

• a daughter confronting inherited faith and spiritual wounding

• a marriage built on steadiness instead of rescue

• a nation grieving what it has become

Written with moral clarity and emotional intelligence, this collection is intimate, socially conscious, and emotionally unflinching. It does not deny harm. It names it.

But it does not stop there.

Instead, it asks a harder question:

What does repair require of us now?

Blending lyric reflection with cultural witness, We Chose Repair speaks to readers drawn to trauma-informed writing, addiction recovery, faith deconstruction, and poetry that is honest about damage without giving up on care.

This is not a book of easy comfort.
It is a book of responsibility.
Of accountability.
Of choosing care when anger would be easier.

If you’ve ever felt caught between fracture and hope -
between inherited silence and the desire to speak -
these poems offer language for what is difficult to name.