Dear Readers,

[Pictured: Doodles and drafts, from an airplane between Tampa and Baltimore.]

This blog has a strange reader-writer dynamic. We are very quiet with each other. I could probably count on one hand how many times I have posted a note to you in between poems. And the rare comments and emails are almost always left anonymously. I know bits of your stories, bits of your feelings, often only attached to an initial. I don't thank you enough. This blog has existed since 2008. I do not promote it anywhere, and nearly everyone that I know in my tangible world does not know about it. Yet still, you've found me and followed, and I could not be more grateful. For your support, for your stories, for your sharing, for knowing that someone out there can relate to the silly things that spill out of me here (and not always in a very beautiful or even decent way).

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

At the very beginning of 2012, still spinning from the end of a relationship and needing arbitrary goals, I decided to write and post one hundred poems by the end of the year. I didn't fail. I ended up at one hundred and three, not included drafts and fragments that were never posted here. I do not have a similar goal for 2013, but I do intend on continuing to write and post, but without the unnecessary pressure. I do not know what is going to happen here.

However, there is one small addition. I understand that many of you have found me through tumblr posts, so I have created a tumblr that will hold identical content to what is found here, in hopes that this will make reading this a little more convenient for you. Let me know what you think?

As for 2013, I think that Neil Gaiman has said it best: "So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy." 

I love you, strangers.