It’s been since May 28th since I submitted work to the journals I talked about before, and I have yet to hear from them. Response time for these places can sometimes be up to a couple of months, so I’m not really worried. To tell you the truth, some days I completely forget I’m waiting for my rejection e-mails and other days I wonder when I’ll hear back. I’m fully prepared for the rejection, I’d just really like to see what they have to say so I can revise my work and write new stuff in a better fashion. But until then…
Today I am going to start my 4th short story (working at that goal I spoke of) and hopefully get somewhere. I want to outline the whole story before starting to write this time–I mean outline down to the detail so that I know what to write instead of struggling with a plot halfway through. I typically say “ok, this story will be about this” and then start writing, but sometimes I write myself into a corner and I have no idea to get to the place I originally wanted to go. So this time I’m going to try an outline. And I am going to tell myself it’s not complete crap once it’s written… since that’s how I usually feel after I’ve read one of my own stories.
While I work on getting some new stuff written, here’s a poem I wrote not that long ago. The language could be more succinct, more tight… but I often find that wordiness is my problem. And, funny enough, my poetry is the one place I use the least amount of words. Any suggestions on this poem are welcomed with open arms.
unfailing
a silk shirt on a wire hanger
never stays in place
roses growing in the garden
always get cut down
lone shoe in the road
never finds a mate
stop signs in the desert
always go unnoticed
a woman crying in a cafe
never misses a stare
the vagrant on the corner
always has an empty cup
your whisperings in the night
never can be believed
my backbone in your presence
always seems to disappear
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