poetic palmer

 in my morning reflection, i realized something a bit.. worrying? namely, my writing habits and routine will need to drastically change when i get a real job again. maybe for the best, eventually, when the dust settles, but it may be rough there for a while.. like, currently, i can write pretty much any time of day bc i'm barely employed at the cafe, lol; i can  make  time for it pretty much whenever. but when i get a 9-5, much of my day will be locked won w work.. i'll either need to switch to evening writing and forgo my beloved hu-kwa tea routine, or get up early af for some combo of gym + writing, or gym at night and write in the morning, or  something .. it stresses me out even thinking @ it! but i need the job etc and want to keep writing, so i'll have to make do somehow..  anyway just a quick post observing all that. as much a note to myself as anyone!

 i'm still figuring it all out, you see. nothing, it feels, has quite crystalized, maybe? i suspect it may take a little time and a lot of editing before we really reach certainty. of course, the poems generally take time; sometimes a lot, sometimes less.   but there's also the issue of style and voice. style is fiddly but easier, maybe; voice takes a lot of time, maybe. i know i don't like capital letters (what's their use? what do they  add ?). i'm a question mark on punctuation (the metro/national guard poem ended up with no punctuation, as an experiment i suppose, but it's hurting me to leave it that way, to not add it all back; in paranoia: brunch and others, i'm  so  precise and careful about punctuation..). i'm also testing 2-dot ellipses (they prevent autocorrect from reformatting them as soon as i hit that third period..) but also spaced out ellipses (. . .) for the same reason plus greater drama. . . and numerals, yes, using only numerals for ...

 i wanted to start a blog for my poetry & poetic musings. of which there will be, i hope,  many .. my main 2026 NYE resolution was to find creative outlets bc i feel that everyone ought to have some  creativity in their life, and i had none and i felt burnt out. so i've taken up writing again and it feels so nice——so fun and fulfilling. i always liked writing poetry, but hadn't dedicated real time since my youth (mid to late teens, mostly); it's short enough for my attention span and provides fun, interesting language/literary challenges. so almost daily, i've been making a cup of hu-kwa tea (i'm a 5th-generation drinker, wildly enough) and sitting for an hour to write or muse or simply think. and that's all been lovely, lovely, lovely..*  i hope this blog (vs my main one, which should also get some love & posting again, someday) will hopefully be informative, interesting, and introspective to fans and readers. i hope to focus on the poetry i'm devel...