Waiting for Word

the poetry collection

Photo credit: “Hereafter,” by Julia Dean

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

Rober Penn Warren, All the King’s Men

I said Fridays are for essays. But exceptions that prove rules and all that (and I’ve never understood what that means except some double talk that means I’m making an exception). I’m making an exception. A month from this Sunday, August 27, 4:30-6: I’ll be a featured poet at the Village Poets of Sunland & Tujunga, at the Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91042. Nestled at the base of the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, due north of downtown Los Angeles, it’s a lovely 25-minute drive from there, and the air is little lighter. If you live in Los Angeles, I’d be thrilled to see you there. If you don’t live in Los Angeles and choose to fly in, I’ll be more than thril…