I’ve come to accept that the creative journey can include using technology to build things that solve a problem. Products, apps, and services that can serve a purpose and make the world a better place are valid vehicles for entrepreneurship.
Lately I've been building an app for writer critique groups and freelance line editors, developmental work I keep returning to because it bridges craft and infrastructure—the same intersection I keep finding in my poems.
Building, like creative writing, involves a lot of waiting: sitting with a problem patiently and filing away what each iteration teaches you and carrying that lesson forward.
What that teaches may be patience of a cosmic order.
Read my poem, then two bonus haiku!
Cosmic patience
There are perks to out-waiting the depths of despair
There are perks to remaining in liminal zones
There are perks to just sitting and learning
The Mind will remember—outlasting death—
And the death of the self that you never were,
And the end of the One who forever begins
Learning, adapting, and filing away,
Mapping templates for loops of encounter
In life, with love, tracing doves up above—
And with hate down below.
In the dark that the light never deigns to show,
Is the terrible secret amongst awe-ful things—
Don’t forget:
The snakes and the dragons have wings.
Bonus haiku:
#1
She acquiesces.
Full-moon tide laps lazily
what night abandoned.
#2
Whipped into frenzy,
drumbeat fabric beating skin
the wind dresses down