Sunday, November 16, 2003

Giving Birth

I feel like I have given birth. Oh my goodness was it a long labor. I have been working on a poem for a little over two months, that I finally finished tonight. It is essentially a response piece to a work by James Merrill. James Merrill wrote a book called The Changing Light at Sandover which included a poem called The Book of Ephraim. The poem details sessions he and his lover (David Jackson) had with a Ouija Board. During these sessions they communed with a spirit named Ephraim. The poem truly affected me, and it has taken me a long time to finish responding. Finally tonight it was done. If you want to read the poem that I wrote check out the 'Read my Poetry' link to the right.

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