I wrote “Invocation: Muse Yourself” in the middle of an impossible week — deadlines stacked like unswept leaves, my brain a tidepool of good intentions and half-finished outlines. Somewhere between the fifteenth open tab and my third cold cup of coffee, I realized the poem wasn’t about calling upon the Muse. It was about bargaining […] The post Confession: On Scattered Altars and the Art of Finishing Things and New Poetry appeared first on Nicholas Andriani.
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