I haven’t made one of these since I was a teenager, though I put this image through some filters on my iPhone.

Sometimes, rejection, even rejection without comment, is clarifying in a way that even the best editorial feedback is not, making it possible to move forward with a writing project in a direction you’d never before considered that has far more potential than the one you’d been pursuing.

It Almost Doesn't Look Real

One Who Came Back One Who Came Back I can't be sure why we should want you among us ... so I'm out here in the moonlight pounding nails in your footprints as if that could make you stay. ... To read the whole poem, click the link.

The poem I read to my wife at our wedding, four women artists you probably haven’t heard of, music by Alice Coltrane and others, and more are collected in this month’s Four by Four. Check it out!