Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I just got an e-mail from my former mentor-type person and being the ridiculously insecure person I am, am wondering…

…why didn’t he say anything about the long poem? He probably didn’t like the format is my guess. Sigh. It is most likely my best poem this year.

I sent him four poems, three of which were written this year, one last year. He liked the most polished one (at least, it felt like the most polished one to me). Two of them are apparently publishable, though one could be longer.

But apparently my treatment of Agamemnon’s death was too reductive, as circumstances leading to his demise were complex. Personally, I think know if I started trying to add discussion of these circumstances, I’d kill my own poem. Same with the four-line poem I sent.