This is the kind of writer I want to be when I grow up. This is an extraordinary piece!
It’s 2018 and a long time now since I was a child, but my young self is written into my adult life like a secret I can’t shake off…
1982
I watch my first episode of Popeye at home on a black and white TV. Dad laughs more than Mum and I do. Olive Oyl makes me think of the sadness of mown flowers, while Popeye’s can-like muscles remind me of Dad’s rhyme about Jim, the softness of tomatoes and how they don’t hurt a thing unless thrown while still wrapped in a tin![i]
Though life changed after my diabetes diagnosis last year, I think I still love laughter. But I know already that I see things differently to other seven year olds. I decide that I must be adopted and my real name’s Penelope.
I don’t realise it yet, but subconsciously I’ve started to construct my identity in…
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Stories From the Edge of Blindness 
August 17, 2018 at 7:51 am
Thanks for sharing this!
August 17, 2018 at 8:02 am
I had to! It’s amazing, right?
August 17, 2018 at 8:43 am
Oh, yeah!
August 17, 2018 at 10:15 am
Do you read Riggwelter? I think they are publishing some amazing stuff!
August 17, 2018 at 2:34 pm
I’ve just been following them for about a month. And yes, they’re publishing some wonderful work.
August 18, 2018 at 6:59 am
If there are any journals you read that you love, I am always looking for new ones and would love suggestions!
August 18, 2018 at 8:02 am
I’ve been reading Agni for years and years. Also like West Branch, Plume, Blackbird, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Eclectica, Panoply, MockingHeart Review, Blue Fifth Review, The Mantle, Reservoir, Underfoot Poetry, The High Window, Glass, Vox Populi, and I could go on and on…
August 18, 2018 at 8:22 am
This is great! Thank you! Some of these I know and read, but many are new. There is so much good stuff out there!
August 18, 2018 at 10:46 am
There is! What are some of your faves?
August 18, 2018 at 1:22 pm
Right now, I am loving Rust + Moth, Atrium, Amaryllis, The Algebra of Owls, and Eunoia Review. It is wonderful that there is so much good stuff out there and that we have access to it.
August 18, 2018 at 1:31 pm
Thank you. Oh, yes. When I started submitting poetry in the 1980s, print was the only choice, and access to it was limited. Our options are so good!
August 18, 2018 at 1:56 pm
Yes!!!! It is also so great not having to send the SASE’s anymore, and to see poems up in a matter of days or weeks, rather than a year. I do find it challenging sometimes, however, to find journals to submit to, because there is so much out there now.
August 18, 2018 at 1:58 pm
The abundance of outlets can be intimidating!
August 18, 2018 at 1:30 pm
Not The Algebra of Owls, just Algebra of Owls. I am rushing today. Sorry.
August 18, 2018 at 1:51 pm
Not to worry. I’m always rushing (except when writing).
August 17, 2018 at 8:07 am
This was amazing!
Thank you for sharing.
August 17, 2018 at 8:08 am
I loved it! I had to share!
August 17, 2018 at 8:38 am
Thanks ❤️
August 17, 2018 at 10:16 am
Had no choice but to share this one!
August 17, 2018 at 10:44 am
It’s outstanding.
August 17, 2018 at 9:16 am
What if I don’t want to grow up and want to be an astronaut, a ballet dancer, a firefighter…
I want to see things differently, like in a book.
Thanks for sharing, hun. Loved it.
August 17, 2018 at 10:23 am
I was in a group community work thing once, and to introduce ourselves, we had to answer the question, if you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? My answer was, Hogwarts!
August 17, 2018 at 11:36 am
Ha. Awesome.
I’d say in a Rilke’s poem.
August 17, 2018 at 12:35 pm
You are much more sophisticated than me!😃💖
August 17, 2018 at 2:26 pm
Lol
August 18, 2018 at 4:45 pm
I really enjoyed this. I’ve been wondering more and more lately whether I should start writing more prose and less poetry. I’ve had so many life experiences I could write about, but poetry seems to come so easy for me. My first blog posts when I started last year were mostly all prose. I wasn’t getting much reaction, so I started writing poetry.
August 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm
I am the same as youWalt. Poetry comes more naturally. But it can be exciting to explore. And, you are an awesome storyteller. Your fiction is really good.
August 18, 2018 at 7:45 pm
Maybe I’ll play around with something. Thank you for your always kind words dear friend .I was informed yesterday that my poem, Tears In The Rain, will be published in Vita Brevis next Friday, the 24th! ☺
August 19, 2018 at 6:48 am
Congratulations Walt!!!!! I am so thrilled for you!
August 19, 2018 at 7:07 am
Thank you Susan 🙂