Hi, Rachel. Thanks for that. Punctuation is to poets what ball-handling skills are to NBA point guards. Tools of art. It means a lot knowing the time it’s taken me to work up syntactical chops shows though in the pieces themselves. Thanks for letting me know.

And I’m glad the piece resonated. I got to thinking before I sent this off to Jason and Renee at Literati: if I can effectively dramatize the problem in a way that gets other writers considering their own life / writing balancing acts, I think I’ve done my job. As far as this poem is concerned, anyway.

As for the next one, well…

By the way, congrats on your recent run of features. All articles were more than worth of showing up on the Homepage. I’m glad your writing’s getting the recognition it has long deserved.