A Poem in Honor of National Poetry Month..."When Do You Write?"

April is National Poetry Month, and that's worth a cheer or two in my world.  I wrote poetry long before I ever finished a novel, and my junior high school journals still live on my bookshelves, full of free verse celebrating (and sometimes cursing) certain junior high school boys.

So to celebrate this month celebrating poems, I decided to share one that I wrote as part of a lecture I gave this winter.  I'm guessing my writer friends may appreciate this one...

When Do You Write?

When people ask ...