Here and Gone - On Love, Loss, and Addiction

In this collection of poems, Z.L. Wiley writes from the wreckage and reckoning that followed a two-and-a-half-year relationship forged in recovery and fractured by relapse. What began as a love story slowly reveals itself as something more complex: a mirror of childhood wounds, survival strategies, and the quiet normalization of pain. These poems move through the aftermath of sexual abuse, addiction, and complex trauma with Wiley tracing the ache of loving and being loved by someone who can...