Last night, for the first time in more than a year, I got back to redrafting Book 2. It’s superexciting. I can’t wait for you all to meet Shakti and Yusufina. They’re two of my favorites.
Amazing that it happened on the eve of my reading, too. Yessirree, my reading and book launch is TONIGHT at 7 PM at the Swift Hibernian Lounge in NYC. It’s free, and it’ll be fun. See you there!
I also mentioned in my last post that “Obstinacy,” the poem I drafted last weekend, would hit a couple more drafts before it was done. Here it is in its latest incarnation.
Obstinacy
Will summons shape as a lean Minotaur,
and it draws itself forward, attentive,
in a rocking chair at the stony shores
of platitudes, picking and poking at
the varnish on the armrests with a meat
hook, musing how he’ll mount the unworthy
and their crumbling logics. The tides obey
the tables – low swells to high, steep curls back
to deep – and none sails near to challenge the
strictures, not with such menace keeping watch.
♥ EAB