All We Were - Two Wars

Spanning nearly four decades, Gabriel Brett uses a unique style of prose poetry to tell the story of poverty, loss, war, and hardship. The poems alternate between the experiences of a child's journey to manhood and a soldier's trials during and after combat. From the shores of a hidden creek downwind of a condemned house to the bullet-strewn streets of forgotten Iraqi towns, Gabriel Brett takes the reader beyond the veil of poverty and trauma.  Lost in a broken mind, nearly drowned in the throws of self-medication, and buried in survivor's guilt, Gabriel Brett is the boy who left home with too many things unresolved and never fully left the war zone.  The poems of All We Were are his quest for reconciliation.
His journey home.