A dozen blogs preceded this one, but this one will be different. This blog will, hopefully, replace the hundreds of moleskines I have bought over the years, not to mention the backs of envelopes and other scraps of paper I have scribbled on. It is time to get modern, and paperless!
That means this blog will be very different indeed, because now this is my scratchpad, for all to see. I will edit as I go, deleting the rougher drafts and polishing up the better efforts, but there will be half efforts and false starts that I hold on to, some that I may set aside and forget, even a few I may regret. But I will also try to structure the blog as I go, so the real keepers can be seen more prominently.
Simorgh Press is the name I chose about ten years ago for my first vanity published book, Thirty Birds, which is also a blog out there somewhere. I may resurrect that book and other past work on these pages, eventually, but first - there is a poem I've got rattling around in my head, and it's time to post it.
(Confession: I may still start from scratch elsewhere, as I have done with this next/first poem, dictated into my phone's notepad while I drove to work the other day. But I hope to get into a straight to blog habit eventually.)
That means this blog will be very different indeed, because now this is my scratchpad, for all to see. I will edit as I go, deleting the rougher drafts and polishing up the better efforts, but there will be half efforts and false starts that I hold on to, some that I may set aside and forget, even a few I may regret. But I will also try to structure the blog as I go, so the real keepers can be seen more prominently.
Simorgh Press is the name I chose about ten years ago for my first vanity published book, Thirty Birds, which is also a blog out there somewhere. I may resurrect that book and other past work on these pages, eventually, but first - there is a poem I've got rattling around in my head, and it's time to post it.
(Confession: I may still start from scratch elsewhere, as I have done with this next/first poem, dictated into my phone's notepad while I drove to work the other day. But I hope to get into a straight to blog habit eventually.)
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