The Stories Inside Me

This week I'm sharing a complete poem which, at this point anyway, has been placed on the cutting room floor for Gnomes of the Cheese Forest and Other Poems, not because I don't favor it, but simply because it doesn't fit into the flow of how the other poems are presently grouped together. So I think it's safe to reveal it here. Update: I put this poem back in the book. 

I share it because it fits into where my head and heart are at the moment, while thinking, planning and wrestling through practical matters related to the book's production.