the new muse
Poetic musings, updates, and community news on the new moons.
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River’s Dream (opens the original)
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Autumn is perching on the shoulder of late summer, do you feel it? I wonder how and where in your life, if so. I find there’s a touch of bittersweetness in the air as the height of the sun season dwindles. Relief, too, accompanies this necessary shift. The Muse this month comes to you by way of a new poem that, when it reaches you, will be a mere three days old. I’m thinking of this poem as the “last” that has come out of a very focused, channeled process of attention I’ve been totally immersed
The Shimmering Veil (opens the original)
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Hello from the ebbing & flowing conditions of my realm to yours. We are just over the threshold of midsummer and I wonder how August is treating you. Is there an image or thought or question that keeps finding you during the height of this season? This month is a bit of a portal for me personally as I am spending much of it in the landscape of my new book, conjuring its final poems and maneuvering edits through the existing ones. All of this private work has me in deep consideration of where poe
The Assignment (opens the original)
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Hi there, reader. A big ol’ bundle of sunflowers on my desk are calming my summery nerves which are taking in lots of ebullient seasonal energy. How are you taking in these summer weeks? <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn
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