*1 year ago, I created for myself a personal goal of producing 12 chapbooks in 12 months ... Today, my goal has met its success ... -- In the past year, I have produced 164 poems and 2 short stories. -- Am I going to stop or slow down? No ... To the contrary, I desire that my ship, which sails upon creative seas, glides even faster, and that my eyes not lose focus of the ever-receding Sun that they eternally chase, fixed in imaginative and beauteous skies ... -- "Onward!" I say ... -- Or, as Rimbaud or Henry Miller would put it: "Advance!" ... "The goal is beyond ... Push oneself, inhumanly ... "
My new collection, Your Heart's Asherah (15 prose poems for Nov. 2024), is now available for pre-order at the Barnes & Noble website: Your Heart's Asherah -- Ironically enough, as I soliloquize of my own fecundity, each physical copy of this particular chapbook is meant to symbolize a gravestone ...