New Poem: Late May
An excerpt from HOW ABOUT NOW
An early reader called How About Now a book about love. She said it with surprise, but no one was more surprised than me. I responded with mild embarrassment, I didn’t mean to write about love, but after more rereads, I’ve come to see that indeed, love is there.
Today is my 16th wedding anniversary, a day that means less and less as years goes by, but signifies something all the same. Happy anniversary to someone who won’t read this book until November. I hope you love it then.
You can pre-order* a signed copy of How About Now here, or wherever books are sold.
*It may strike the reader as absurd to order a book so far ahead of the delivery date. Equally absurd that writers must put on a publicist’s costume and market themselves in the same spaces where videos of golden retrievers diving for tennis balls and former ballerinas making sourdough bread exist. This is less of a complaint and more an observation that the Internet is good/bad news. You don’t need to do a damn thing for me, a Pennsylvania poet with some success and a roof over her head, but I am once again letting you know that the best way to support authors you love is to pre-order their books. This lets the publisher and booksellers know that someone is interested which makes them interested in putting it out into the world. ILY. xo
Punching wives in the gut all over the world. Preordered as always ❤️
I love pre-ordering books - it’s the best surprise when it comes in the mail and I can thank my prior self for ordering it! And to know it helps the author makes it even more special. Honestly I’m at a point now where it makes me even happier to pre-order than order when the actual book comes out.
Loved this poem very much.