Like many others on the blogs I follow I have been submitting my writing to publishers. In the push to get some of my work published I’ve come across some of the familiar, old, reliable doubts and fears of mine and a couple of insights that I thought would be cool to share.
Writing
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what you think in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Out for a walk and I realize that everything I know to be fact, through careful scientific observation, has been told to me. The things that I assume to be true, through my own experiences and observations, are but a myth.
I only want to write on an empty stomach, so to feel the urgency of hunger. I will […]
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He’s a fugitive walking through the neighborhood. Trapped in the town he’s running from. Choruses of frothing loam […]
Falling and flailing, it seems wildly, but, in fact its what we’re programmed to do when we’re falling. […]
We went to dinner, which apparently is what everyone else does on an ordinary weekday night. We sat […]
travelers stand next to 9-5’ers who line the sidewalk, street-side no parking ’til 9 a.m. Music thunders out […]
In plump raindrops, the construction worker, with his hard hat and faded denim jeans, dirty-orange safety vest, pulls […]
We are the culture to one-up each other. We are blessed, let us rest. ¥ This poem came […]
