trailhead publishing

Trailhead Psalms: Field Notes for the Formerly Lost is a book of poems, field notes, and fragments gathered along the way. It’s rooted in memory, land, and the long work of staying. D. Blake Washington writes about survival, belonging, and what endures when the noise falls away-drawing meaning from silence, family, and the places we don’t always name out loud.

These pieces don’t try to fix anything. They sit with what’s here. They move through creeks and campfires, old fences and inherited stories, asking what it means to carry a life without disappearing inside it. The voice is steady, honest, and unafraid of tenderness.

This is not self-help. It’s survival literature. The kind that listens more than it explains. Each poem is a quiet marker on the trail-a reminder that sometimes presence is enough.

This book is for:

• those who learned early to keep quiet
• those who were told softness was a liability
• anyone who has ever carried more than they were taught how to hold

Inside you’ll find reflections on family and identity, the natural world as witness, and the slow practice of staying human in a world that often asks us not to.

Some trails are walked alone.

Some truths are spoken softly.

Some healing happens by staying long enough to listen.