But finding the original draft in my notebook last night I read it completely differently, especially the shape cut from the map. I don't know which edit I prefer so I'll sit with both and maybe one day it will find its way past the fanged threshold of a magazine, who knows.
You're right. It is truly funny how we feel the need for journal/magazine approval for our poetry. I feel it. It's not a nice feeling. Poetry is like soul speak — what a weird thing to then "reject" a poem.
Yes! The most annoying thing is not to be able to share the thing you've been lovingly crafted because you might – *might* – have it published some day. I'm not impetuous for that lol!
I am laughing right now as I already published a different edit of the first poem, with another title, right after the earthquake in Morocco (before this round of Israel's assault on Gaza), here: https://medinatenourwhiteman.substack.com/p/after-joy-harjo-poetry-as-ceremony
But finding the original draft in my notebook last night I read it completely differently, especially the shape cut from the map. I don't know which edit I prefer so I'll sit with both and maybe one day it will find its way past the fanged threshold of a magazine, who knows.
You're right. It is truly funny how we feel the need for journal/magazine approval for our poetry. I feel it. It's not a nice feeling. Poetry is like soul speak — what a weird thing to then "reject" a poem.
Yes! The most annoying thing is not to be able to share the thing you've been lovingly crafted because you might – *might* – have it published some day. I'm not impetuous for that lol!