I’ve had recent publication happiness with two online journals, and want to share the poems with you.
The current issue of About Place Journal focuses on trees. My poem, “Forest Man,” is sort of playful and childlike, full of wonder and happiness at being with the forest.
The Quotable, another fine journal that I’ve been published in before, took on the theme of night and day for their current issue, and graciously accepted one of my ever present, ever elusive “Mom poems.” This poem, “Far Away,” took many years to shape until I got it into its (perhaps) final form that you see here. (Do you hear that, my wonderful students…..? It did not come whole and intact from that first, stream-of-consciousness writing.)
Happy first draft writing. Let whatever emerge that wants to. The revision process will always allow for a poem to “become.”
