I'd Cared Too Much

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Since my epiphany on the airplane during our trip from California, I'd been doing a bit better at protecting some time for writing. I'd finished and submitted a poem, my first attempt at publication, to Byline Magazine. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's book of poems I'd found in St. Augustine.

Upon Reading "The Complete Poems of Ernest Hemingway"

I sat in Northgate Burger King
with Ernest Hemingway;
washed in concentration,
shades of "oily weather" gray.
Complete Poems this book...