Come in. Stay a while. We will work through this together.
We Chose Repair
Poems on Fracture, Complicity, and the Work of Repair
Some wounds are personal.
Some belong to a country.
We Chose Repair is a contemporary literary poetry collection that moves 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 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 socially conscious poetry with intimate reflection, We Chose Repair speaks to readers drawn to trauma-informed writing, addiction recovery, faith deconstruction, and emotionally honest explorations of belonging.
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.
Repair is not a return to what was.
It is the work of remaining.