Jonathan E. Wilson confesses, “I wrote these poems in real time—not as reflections on crisis, but as dispatches from inside it.” Each poem has a date, from February 17, 2025, just days after his son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, to November 14 of the same year, a month after his father’s death.Wilson has spent decades traveling to war zones and disasters helping children recover from trauma, understanding it professionally, but in 2025 “trauma came home.” This book documents Wi...