Jun. 28th, 2017

Unicorns

Jun. 28th, 2017 12:40 am
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I have a new poem up in Liminality, Issue #12, called “Unicorns”. Check it out here.


I wrote the first, short draft of “Unicorns” several years ago, in the middle of an attempt at National Poetry Writing Month, most of which was garbage. It felt like something that I wanted to expand, and I spent a long time bashing away at different parts and stanzas, trying to explain the thing I was trying to say, trying to give graphic examples of all its different facets.


In the end, I had to leave the whole mess for a while, and when I came back to it, I realized that the thing I had originally written was already a complete scene which perfectly encapsulated itself. The tiny published version you can see up now is extremely close to the tiny original version.


Just an example, I suppose, of how a shorter poem isn’t always easier to do. 😀

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