The Charred Stub Outspeaks the Living Tree1: A review of Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult-Onset Trauma, by Ghislaine Boulanger, 2007,  Analytic Press,  202 pp.

Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day,

I sit in solitude and only hear

Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay,

The lost intensities of hope and fear;

In those old marshes yet the rifles lie,

On the thin breastwork flutter the grey rags,

The very books I read are there—and I

Dead as the men I loved, wait while life drags

Its wounded length from those sad streets of war

Into green places here, that were my own