My heartfelt thanks to Writer Pilgrim by So Elite, for taking the poem and for making me a guest poster on your site. What you added after questions you asked me made the post so much more with an explanation of how the first draft of the poem came to be while I was researching how to create a main character in my novel Who by Fire that I am currently serializing. Then it took on a life of its own as I rewrote it so many times, more than I can count here. -
The question rose like the crescent moon in the west. Light in the head, as if she’d traveled to the moon where she’d weigh even less than here. Had a big glass of cheap red wine with dinner, a big steak, smoked sixth cigarette last of the day. She says to the man who wants her, “Okay, I give.” Hears his soft deep voice like the string bass, the bru…
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