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New Lyric Essay on Love and Time (2021)

In a year in which creating felt hard, I feel proud and a little bit still-in-love with this flash essay I wrote in May 2021. In the old days (circa last year), I may have submitted it to literary journals in the hopes of being “selected for publication” (aka validation I am a writer worth reading), but this year I experimented with validating my own self by publishing poems and essays when I thought they were ready and worth reading. I did this by publishing quietly on Medium with a little bit of self-promotion on social media. It was a worthwhile experiment that I recommend anyone in the literary community who has ever felt stuck on “being published” try. 

I love almost everything I wrote this year during the time of the experiment, with this being my favorite:

Things Are Getting Serious With Time

Sexy Quiet

What if I made the choice and the choice was Quiet? It’s true sometimes Noise tricks me into believing he is life. What with all the…

Putting out fires at almost 40

Honesty bursts forth from me in fits, in starts. This is 40. This may not be 40 for you. I realize, for you, this may…

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