Character (Traits): A careful definition
"The most careful thing is to dare." -Shimon Peres My goal this year was to fly. Not literally, fly, but the imagining of it. I would...
Being Present-National Poetry Month
It is easy to forget that where you are is where you need to be. The past two weeks were the first large edit of my new novel in verse. Printed sections. Pieces moved around and moved again. Words cut. Poems combined. A story uncovered. Novels in verse had a moment. They had a moment when they were the moment, the feeling, the breathing, the burning that everyone wanted. That moment passed. Their internal scrapes, grooves, molding of how I feel my writing, still rema
Living Conditions
When I drive through town, sometimes I flinch. The crumpled brown up ahead. What is it? Could it be? How could it be anything but. ....
