p l e i a d e s ; .

As I was reading the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of FENCE magazine, the physical evidence that I had lost the FENCE poetry book contest, for the first time in years I felt an unsureness and insecurity in my own abilities as a writer, much attributed to that ever nasty and futile vice of comparing one’s self to others.

But that is exactly what it is: merely futile.

Eradicate doubts and know that you will succeed as far as you believe in yourself.