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Cartography
by
Steve Tomasko

Just try, says the man.
Write something.

Take a step, says
this friend of mine.
Did Byrd quaver at exploring
that vast blank page?

Write,
says my friend

who sent me a journal.
Try every day.

Write something
even if it’s just,

April, 3rd:
Gone.


© 2010 by Steve Tomasko.
Used with the author's permission.

 

 

Steve Tomasko doesn’t fish as much, walk in the woods enough, or write as often as he should. When not at his day job, he does a little freelance nature observing and occasionally turns that into words. Once in a while people even pay him for it. He and his poet wife, Jeanie, whose poetry also graces these pages, live in Wisconsin.
 



Post New Comment:
Leslie Holt:
Love it, Steve. Very fitting for me today. Thank you.
Posted 03/03/2011 07:54 AM
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