joe-cottonwood
I like this place. I post first drafts of poems here, later withdraw them to revise and re-think, send to poetry journals, then re-post them here in finished form after publication. Wish I could do the same revisions with other events of my life —friendships, child-raising, cars that I've bought. / / I've worked in the building trades for most of my life: carpenter, plumber, electrician. Also been a writer all my life, published a bunch of books, never hit it big. Built my house under redwoods on a mountainside, raised a family, loving and living with the same woman for fifty years, play with the grandkids. That's a career and it continues yet. / joecottonwood.com
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