book birthday

Today is the release date of Climbing Lightly Through Forests, the Aqueduct Press poetry anthology honoring the great Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by R.B. Lemberg and Lisa M. Bradley. It includes the work of many wonderful poets. My contribution, "ode to illness," is a response to "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" and also a response to my own illness. It was written when I was in the early months of the vertigo that hasn't gone away but was much worse back then. It makes me happy that such a difficult time could be transmuted into a poem, and that the poem is now part of such a beautiful book.