Lincoln published poems in the Springfield paper dripping with daggers and cries in the dark Styron filled pages with treacherous weather howling tempests and horrific gray drizzle for me — it’s a dime-store black plastic mask I wore as a child on Halloween the kind with the two impractical nose holes and the unreliable thin rubber band I was thrilled by the concept of being anonymous but I just couldn’t get enough breath — CRAIG PATRICK
Craig Patrick is a Washington, DC area writer and musician. When not writing poems, titling unwritten novels, or naming fake bands, he writes a newsletter about the creative process called Thinking about Thinking and records guitar-driven, synth-tinged, multi-hyphenated pop/rock music under the name Giants of Diving.