The end of 2002 began a countdown to the inevitable invasion of Iraq.
I started my Sarcastic Haiku series towards the end of that year with the hope that I would write more than one poem a year.
I never thought I would use that exercise to dive into politics.
But I did.
The third Sarcastic Haiku ever written later became the genesis for my American Haiku series years later.
It's still one of the best political poems I ever did.
In it's original form, I had no idea if any publication would take it.
But Del Ray Cross did. He published the first three Sarcastic Haiku in issue #17.
Like I wrote previously, it was a new step. If I hadn't gotten support form Del Ray and others in the beginning, I might not have kept at it.
I think about that a lot as a poetry journal editor.
These things matter.
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