You Can't Discover What Was Always There: Poems From The West 2020-2025, (Paperback)

This collection of poems follow the author's period of creative rediscovery with the backdrop of loss, hardship, change, and redemption.

In a journey that spans California's Central Coast, the deserts of Arizona, and a return to San Diego, Mark Wilkens reflects on a path that includes working with his hands in agriculture and passing through a series of odd jobs en route to his career in writing. This five-year span begins with a move to the desert in the global pandemic and ends with the author's starting a family near his hometown.