Out of the Mind Palace, through the slough

and all up into SPRING we go

Through the end of February and beginning of March, I stayed hunched over my laptop for hours and hours, every damn day (I mean more than usual, which is already too much), making edits on a book I’ve been working on for so…dang…long.

I had a deadline, could not blow it.

By the time I emerged from this revision sprint, my body was shot—I mean to tell you…