smoked a whole pack
of cigarettes drank an entire pot
of coffee
whatever it takes to keep still
and write the damn
book
#katyamills
smoked a whole pack
of cigarettes drank an entire pot
of coffee
whatever it takes to keep still
and write the damn
book
#katyamills
i have this aching in my bones. but it’s ok. summer is about to strike. the sun the source of energy. i love this feeling. i know this feeling. i’m at the edge of a jagged cliff. preparing for a deep dive… into a book.
#katyamills
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/343070-up-from-the-downtrodden
free e-copy of my new poetry book
hello friends! this is Katya. i am happy to announce i released my first book of poetry yesterday. Up From the Downtrodden. thanks for all your feedback here as many of the poems i chose to include came by looking at my wp statistics and finding the poems that you all loved the most over the past several years. i have been primarily an author of fiction and creative nonfiction, and all of my 6 published works on goodreads.com (and amazon.com) are either novels and novellas. i am fully independent and do all my own editing and self-publishing. i use beta readers to ensure the content is highest quality.
i took every poem through additional edits over the past year as i built this collection up, so poems you find in the collection will be more fully realized versions of themselves. the only way i’ve been capable of publishing a poem a day for the last 9 years (the promise i made to myself for a daily spiritual practice and meditation) has been to work quickly yet carefully, revisiting each poem 1-4 times, before the commitment. this process has left some room for potential and actualization. i believe you will not be disappointed if you choose to purchase (or, if you have amazon prime, you can read the ebook for free) the paperback. thank you for supporting independent authors like myself! – Katya Mills
30 watt lightbulb
splashed across these
walls like lemon
lemme see your face
up from these pages why
do you cry? they cannot hurt
you. lemme read you
these damn classics
until we fall asleep
#katyamills
from sun up to down they
hardly got time to reflect
life was bad and good that way
got the heartbeat up some
hiking they pitched camp equidistant
from being and doing and
read a book. no matter how
deep the stories took them
life would be waiting
#katyamills
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