Muses Review - Poetry
Winter 2006
Katie Steward's poetry
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Katie Davis Steward - Poet based in California
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A Poem's Justice 

by Katie Davis-Steward
Source:
The Beginning of the Tumbling (2004)  p.35 

I always write because I
revere it and am always
attached to it. But then I
found out I had to pump
out more poems quick to
meet a publishing requirement.
Therefore; I also had to write
on demand. All of a sudden,
my writing h ad gone way
beyond my office walls without
even literally leaving yet.

I began to write for an audience
I didn't know. Wondering what
they would think months down
the road. I stopped writing for
myself and definitely stopped
writing for the poem itself. Those
poems stopped at barely rough
drafts and would not form when
they realized they were ordered to.

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