Actual published poetry

Yay! It came in the mail!! My Actual Published Poet friend Eileen wrote this collection and it is beautiful and I have cried several times already reading it:

“Meanwhile, I moved through life
ten seconds at a time because ten
seconds was all I could manage —
ten seconds, and another ten
seconds, and days that wouldn’t
end, and sleep that wouldn’t
come, and dark that wouldn’t dissipate
because it was trapped inside
my skin, behind
my eyes.”

And it wasn’t until I was reading Eileen’s poetry collection that I remembered that I am, technically, also a published poet!

However, I’m not sure that college literary journals count, especially when they were 30+ years ago… I would definitely never share the piece I published here. It’s not that it was bad. It’s just that I am a lot better now.