The day has its own rules, its own noise, and its own armor. But when the light retreats, the map changes. For those walking the uneven terrain of trauma, the night is not a place of rest – it is a vast, unmapped wilderness where the past refuses to remain buried.
A Geography of Shadows is an intimate, sunset-to-sunrise exploration of the architecture of a restless mind. Moving through four distinct watches of the night, this collection of poems charts the heavy transition of the evening unmasking, the dense thicket of over-thinking, and the airless altitude of the 3:00 AM peak where nightmares feel less like dreams and more like a physical trapping of the body. It captures the exhausting, quiet riot of post-traumatic anxiety – the hyper-vigilante listening, the racing pulse, and the surreal landscapes we are forced to navigate when old shadows find their way back into the bedroom.
This isn’t a guide to sleeping, a medical manual, or a checklist for a cure. It is a raw, deeply human companion for staying awake. It is a map drawn in the dark for the restless, the over-thinkers, and the survivors, serving as a quiet reminder that even the longest night eventually dissolves into the mercy of the morning horizon. You are not the only light left on.
