A Small Portfolio
Sometimes I do other things, but when I am not doing other things, I tend to write. I recently completed a Thesis in Creative Writing--a small collection of five short stories called Take This From Me. That is not a good title but we all have regrets. The thesis clocks in at 68 pages--too unwieldy to post here, but if you click on that horrendous title you can view the collection in pdf format. (Note: While I am beamingly proud of this thesis, I should mention there's a good deal of content that's . . . erm . . . in noncompliance with FCC broadcast regulations. Folks from my generation probably can dig what I'm up to, but other folks--i.e., my mother--maybe won't like it so much.)
As well, I fancy myself a poet (mostly becase no one else fancies me a poet, or at all, and I strongly feel that someone ought to). These here poems, which are mine, are mine, and what they are too.
| I like this at least as well as I do anything I've ever written. | This poem won first place in Cellar Door’s spring 2000 contest, under mysterious circumstances. |
Some poems (or stories for that matter) I write, and I spend lots of time with, until I think they're perfect, and they say exactly what I want them to. Then I step back and wonder if the only reader capable of decoding what I have written is me. Then I wonder if that's really a bad thing. Then I decide I'm pretty sure that's very bad, the worst, but there's just nothing for it, and dammit I still like the poem. This is one of those. |
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