Ekstasis published a chapter of my narrative poem, Evening Song!

To see it formatted correctly (the line breaks are meaningful!) flip your phone on its side, or read on a computer.

I’m wildly proud of this chapter and of the larger poem. After finishing the work, I set it to music (i.e., made songs out of it). In this specific chapter, Maggie explains how she turned out to be a religious person in a time and place where that is a fairly strange thing.

For people who love poetry: yes, this is in blank verse. For those partial to prose: you can read this like any other piece of writing—one of the appealing aspects of narrative poetry. The lines are there, though, should they catch your eye.