Saturday, December 11, 2021

New poem: "John Hoyer Updike"

 

John Hoyer Updike

 

Re-reading the biography of America’s

preeminent man of letters, Adam Begley’s

UPDIKE, I marveled even more the

second time at John Hoyer Updike’s

writerly accomplishments, which pulled

at me like a siren call to the infernal

depths of writer envy, but I kept myself

from falling as I valued the worth of my

humble life, examining the trajectory

of my own writerly way into the center

of life experience that every writer seeks

but cannot find, and the anguish left my

troubled heart and was replaced with a

gratifying joy for John Hoyer Updike’s

Nobel prize-worthy talent.

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