A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-One-Hundred-And-Eighty-Seven

I spent much of today just resting.  The festival, even in its online format, is a lot, I suppose, and I didn't realize how tired I was.  Tomorrow, I hope, I will be in a better place to really get going on some of the work I want to do.  I have one poem in particular that I feel is important, and which I think I know what I want to do with it.  It is the same poem that I workshopped yesterday, and the reactions in class have me thinking that it is already most of the way there, at least in terms of what is present now, but I had already recognized that it needed some grounding, and I know the title isn't working at all.  To be honest, I kind of threw the title on.  I knew I needed to title it, and I had a sort of placeholder idea of what I wanted to gesture towards in the title, so I just threw one on that didn't quite fit, but would help me to keep track of what I was doing with the poem.  I may have a better sense of how to frame the piece, now, and it may be that I will take the idea from that title and put it into the poem in another way.  I am going to need to spend a bit of time working on it, but I feel that I have a real sense of where to go with it at the moment.  I hope I can get it right, not only because of the poem itself, which is wrestling with some significant themes and ideas that I've found difficult to talk about in my work before, but also because it feels like a step towards something in my work on a larger level.  It feels like a more mature piece, in some way that I cannot quite explain, but I am very excited to see what happens as I work on revising it.

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