I’ve been carving a book out of my best work from the last few years and it really seems to be coming together. Some days I think it’s crap, but on those days I think everything is crap.  Other days, I am kind of shocked by it and believe it has a chance to do something in the world. Either way, thanks to a recent grant, I’ll begin sending it out to test against the senses of others. I’m both being ambitious and keeping my hopes low. But I thought I’d run it through a little test before releasing my full grip. Below you see a Wordle image—a congregation of the words most commonly used in the manuscript. My only surprise came from the giant “like” with the e’s gaping mouth about to devour whatever words come near it. Hopefully this doesn’t happen in the poems themselves. Though, I guess it could be worse.