New Publication:
My poem, “Deciding Not To,” is posted now in Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, Issue Eight. Sediments is an online quarterly literary journal. It unfurls its focus onto its contents week by week throughout the quarter. This week my poem will be featured on the home page. Next week something new will take its place. However, you will still be able to see my poem if you click through Issue Eight’s features. Prior issues are available in Sediments’ online archives.
Epigraph:
“Deciding Not To” features an epigraph from one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver. These lines are from “A Poem for the Blue Heron,” published in American Primitive (Little, Brown, 1983):
a bird with an eye like a full moon
deciding not to die, after all–
Other than the epigraph, there isn’t a blue heron in my poem. Here’s a picture of a blue heron anyway, in case you are curious how the bird looks.
I hope you enjoy “Deciding Not To”!