What Happened to Us Back Then?
ISSUE EIGHT of Stylus, the online poetry journal, features an interview with me where I found myself reflecting differently and deeper on my childhood and the whole ecology of place and music and schooling and ignorance and books and troubles and joys that probably shaped me and explain how and why I write. The issue also features, as ever, some fine reviews and new poems, including three of mine: “Black Swan Moment,” “Late Light with Whitefaced Herons,” and “Still”.
“Where I grew up, teaching and preaching and singing (if not dancing) were everyday virtues, and the disadvantage you were taught to protest was never your own; where I grew up, all faith included doubt, and nothing worth believing in lacked music; where I grew up, all wealth was suspect. We didn’t fight much, as I recall. Until we did. We tended to bottle and ferment our grievances.”
