Thoughts

In the past few months, I've had some success with my poetry. Writing short pieces like poems and short stories has proven a welcome relief from the Watermaster novels. It feels so productive to sit down and write for an hour or two and be done. That said, I do feel a special connection with the song-poems that I create for the Watermaster novels. Even though only a few lines of a song actually appear in the published book, I often write the whole thing.

Here's one poem I wrote as the part epigraph for a section in Rainbow Knife. This was fashioned after a sijo, a syllabic form of Korean lyric poetry similar to haiku.

Herons fly, slow beat of wings, pleading with a sunset sky,

Show a place where fish still swim, all shining scales and glinting tails.
Dried to dust, the river deep lies dreaming of the hunter’s feet.