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About Frostwriting: "We publish outstanding emerging writers, welcome writing from anywhere on any subject, but have a special place in our hearts for cross-cultural experience, especially when such experience somehow involves Sweden."

Someday MAKAR will tour Sweden. ;0)

Andrea's note: What is so funny about this poem is it has transformed from three bare stanzas, the 1st, 2nd and last to something more fleshy and personal. Frostwriting wanted me to lose the first stanza –

That unpublished 1st stanza read:

and the fall is coming
on the heels of hurricanes,
what is it like to always be underfoot?

I’m very glad they suggested this omission because that stanza always felt too pat and generic to me.

I only added the latter stanzas (3rd and 4th) after having a spat with a friend, a spat that just won’t end and still hasn’t ended. (Not sure if it will ever end although I picture us finally talking again this winter.) That current third stanza Frostwriting really found powerful. And as I read it again, it really is the meat of the poem.

But the poem was inspired by a songwriter’s news email saying “September is over…” I just found that phrase ominous and interesting.