Rewrites: March 2024

Each month I post an update called Rewrites on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

​Publications: 

• 1 of my senryu was published in Prune Juice, Issue 42 on 3/31/2024. 

inching toward 
middle-age 
still a caterpillar 
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• 1 of my haiku was published in The Heron's Nest, Volume XXVI, Number 1, March, 2024

the rock the heron stands on motionless 

• 3 of my haiku were published in Akitsu Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2024

chopping firewood
the raised ax 
splits the moon

only firelight...
the shadow of a silkmoth 
flickering 

the morning after
all the petals that couldn't
hold on in the storm 

• 1 of my haiku was published in Cold Moon Journal on 3/20/2024. 

in front of the fire cracking open a new book 
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Seattle from the Walla Walla ferry.

Books I Finished in This Month: 
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver 
Come & Get It by Kiley Reid 
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (audiobook) 
Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield 

Attended:

• I did not attend any writing or reading events this month.  ​

Lincoln Park, West Seattle

​Haiku: 

this world
is a dewdrop world
yes... but...

Issa

Poem: 

Song of Myself, 51
by Walt Whitman 

The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?
Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?

Book Cover: 

Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield

​Writing Encouragement:
People with anxiety are naturally creative individuals, but problems occur when that creativity is channeled in ways that aren't helpful. Instead of envisioning elaborate "worst case scenarios," write,  draw, craft, take photographs, or any number of ways to divert that creative energy. 

Quote From a Writer: 
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." - William Wordsworth