So I haven’t done any poetry-related updates to this blog in I don’t even know how long. The reason is simple; I’m not writing. At all. I finished MONSTER in July and haven’t really seen the muse since. On the one hand, it isn’t that surprising. A friend who has read the entire manuscript described MONSTER as a ‘poetic enema,’ and I think she was right–I’ve been pretty empty for the last 5+ months.
And it’s starting to get to me.
I have an idea for what I want to do next, and a working title for it. The thing about the MONSTER poems is that they’re all really long and gleefully obscene. I want to write shorter, quieter poems now–something more like Watermark, but bleaker. The working title is This is the Way We Communicate When We Have Nothing to Say. The poems are going to start coming again any day now…
I like the new idea! Because that’s really what the Watermark poems need: more bleakness.
Seriously, it sounds good. Get crackin’, son.