Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into ... And we think of home, our real home. JACK: I can get out of the mid and the rain any time I want, but those soldiers couldn’t.

While trenches globally are classified together as the hadal zone, they tend to be physically isolated from each other in real life, like islands of negative space separated by swaths of seafloor.

Ukrainian poets who have taken up arms to defend their country are capturing life in the trenches, and soldiers are turning to poetry to help them cope with their war experiences. DW's Sonia ...