I’m planning on taking a bit of a break from writing here…and with the taking a break from poetry comes a desire to ponder my own work.

According to my “looking” at it, my poems seem to fall into three categories:

— political work, with a particular interest in the juxtaposition of old times and new; I’m including the work I’ve done on my intersectional heritages of Apache/Italian.

— personal work, with an emphasis on whatever I’m feeling/doing at the given moment; this includes ‘fictionalized’ work or third person stories that reflect my situation in a given moment.

— other shit, which includes what I would call ‘mysticism.’

Don’t look too closely at any of these — they are filtered thru my own prejudices, and colored by two strokes; tomorrow I might see them differently, re-order them by alphabetical reference or the I Ching. But this is a start.

Anyone got any insight on my work? I mean, you’d have to care about it between ‘ooh’ and ‘yuck.’ Not sure anyone does, to be honest.

I’m 8729 posts into this work. Don’t know if I’ll make it to 10K, though that’s still the goal. But I’m dead serious about caring what any of you think critically about the Work.

TIA