Contributing Writer
Megan is the author of Love and other Mysteries (Wipf and Stock), a new poetry collection. She's also written The Joy of Poetry, a memoir, and Rainbow Crow, a picture book of form poems. Her day is incomplete without poetry, tea, and a walk in the dark. Read her work at meganwillome.substack.com.
Michael would sometimes lead a drill called Good-Better-Best, where participants give Good work for a specific period of time, then Better for a shorter period, then their Best for a brief spurt, maybe for only 10 seconds. I'll never know what those bursts felt like to him on his bad days. He smiled through it.
This spring as I take my daily walks, I am looking to see what survived the storm and what did not. What can I do? I can wait and lament.
Where do you like to write? I need natural light to write. I can’t create from a loving place unless my eyes are flooded and my skin is sheltered.
What would you say, in a poem, to a friend facing a serious diagnosis? How might your experience provide wisdom? Is there a poem that ... you could share?
