She may not read any of this
But her silence edits everything I write.
The flourishes and rhetoric she would red line.
So, too, any pretension or the slightest falseness.
Just tell the story,
I hear her say, quietly.
It is what you are here for.
Always be a poet. Even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire.
In essence I am a storyteller who writes poems. Put simply, I write the poems I want to read.[…]
A sequence of my poems has been published in a hardcover book entitled The Music of Leaving Poems by Tricia McCallum
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