Poetry Works Mostly

I got a bee in my bonnet over the last weekend of October. One could argue adroitly that I was avoiding doing other things but I think putting together 90% of this book over 2 days counts as being productive.I went through old hard drives notebooks and the web to find all the poetry I've written. It's not a lot about 60 or so but it was fun looking for them and revisiting some I'd not thought about for a few decades.This book is sort of a collected works edition. Some of the poems I've worked hard on and some of them were written in less than a minute. I think I tend to like those the best. There are one or two that I set out to do something very specific and I think I accomplished that.Could they all be better? Of course. Getting through the final 10% took another month. Are any of them great? One is. I could work for another 30 years on some of these-that's how poetry goes. But at some point to steal a phrase from dayjob-land you gotta ship it.This book is a word temple. At least it wants to be.I hope you like the book you are about to read even if it isn't this one.