It’s been a bit of a long week (and ten days since my last blog post), and an exhausting one. Valentine’s Day was a glorious double-whammy of emotional complication and the business of my industry. I took a relaxing day to recoup, more on a whim than on anything else, and was able to find some respite and rejuvenation in food, art, wine, and tea. I finished editing Part II of A Place I Have Never Been, more on that soon! I wrote a few poems and outlined a few more, and am about halfway done with February’s free short story (planned for next week).

Enjoy one of those poems below, and the reason behind it!

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I started out my worried day

filled with all the wrong things I’d done.

Then, I found a typo at the MFA.

It was, like me, hidden away,

perhaps not intentionally. I’d tried to run

and hide at the start of my worried day

searching for something that might allay

the stress I felt. Now, all that’s gone

right out of my head as I stare at this typo at the MFA.

I guess I found some comfort, in a way,

at finding a single mistake, just one

that wasn’t my own on this worried day.

It’s a nice reminder that, you know, hey,

we’re human. The people working here, everyone,

they missed a typo at the MFA.

So, maybe, then, it’s okay

if I sometimes slip up under the gun.

I’ll feel a little less worried, because today

I found a typo at the MFA.