As most poets know, sending out work can be a bust. Many sites require a reading fee and if you were to send out your work to as many literary magazines as possible, you'd go broke. What happened to the days when writers were paid? Now, you're lucky to get a copy of the publication where your poems appeared. There is another catch too. If your work was previously published. even online, that can disqualify you.
Finally, I decided, after having published enough poems for a resume, that I would do just that- publish my own work on my blog whenever I felt like it.
Dreams of a Water Soaked World
My mother reads
cards for the gypsies
camped outside of Livani,
my legacy-
the march of nighttime faces
through my brain,
the dead that
nip at my heels,
Grandma is coffin garb
walks on clouds.
