This Yeats parody got axed at a few places I sent it, including my college's lit mag... I think I'll just keep it as part of the new WIP. The original poem was a dig at Yeats' amorous muse, Maud Gonne -- I wanted to take it a different direction...

I kept meaning to share Bill McCloud's cool erasure of one of my older poems I was re-working recently... hospital work got in the way...
Glad to know ya, Bill! 😃

Worked a rather late overtime hospital shift (3pm to 11pm), got home on foot a bit after midnight.
Looking through my new WIP, "Words Are Strands of Unkempt Hair", sort of a bric-a-brac of poems from my Twenties for the most part...
Here's a couple of poems I wrote at 24 and 25 during my short stay as a student of the University of Oklahoma... (nota bene: I wrote my very first poems at 22)...

This was my debut acceptance in a literary magazine, a sort of or a I wrote when working at a greyhound and a college dropout. Dragon Poet Review picked it up Fall 2018, a lovely Oklahoma area literary magazine.

It's the third piece in my debut collection "Trionfini"... the whole collection has a sort of processional movement, ending on my work in hospitals during Covid...

First post on Mastodon -- maybe a poem I wrote recently I'm rather fond of will do the trick?

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