OK so I moved back to Illinois over a year ago, and still haven't made it to Carbondale or southern Illinois, which is now about four hours away. There are a lot of reasons for that - raising teenagers among them - but that's what it is. I miss my people in so. Illinois very much and want to visit.
This post is more about the general plan to redo Boxcars on Walnut, which is poetry that came off of this site back in the years (1994-2012) that I lived in Carbondale. In those days I wrote a lot of haiku and put it in a book which has been saved here. And in the meantime I have switched over from making massive haiku attempts, 1000 at a time, from my extensive travels, to rather using the small-book format to tell little stories.
So it is time for boxcars to get a revamp. It will probably be very simple and clean, but it will happen in the next few months, and I will keep you posted.
The pop art on this site is something I'm attached to as well. But I've done nothing with it except leave it here, and maybe that's another goal I can set out to accomplish now that I'm in Illinois. I've become a kind of Illinois fan, Illinois patriot. I love the place. And I'm just sitting in my chair, in small-town Illinois, watching the rain (almost unheard of in New Mexico) and enjoying the way a small Illinois town (in this case Galesburg) can make you feel like you've got what you need.
