D. A. Hosek

Iceland: France: United States:

This poem was vaguely inspired by some of the handwritten photocopied flyers seen taped to telephone poles and the like.

I feel like I’m definitely getting more in a writing groove, although still a bit scattered.

Another of my Chicago Sonnet sequence.

Having gotten relatively clear of my depression, I seem to be finally being a bit more productive.

So I’m climbing out of the depression, although not quite as fast as I’d like.

My big revelation this month was that wasting time playing games online isn’t the cause of my not writing so much as a symptom of the cause which is that I’ve been kind of in a depressed state for most of this year.

It only seems fitting that having started this project by going to Mass at the church of St Rita of Cascia on the South Side of Chicago, that I’d finish at the shrine church a few miles away on the grounds of St Rita of Cascia High School.

St Bernardine holds the title for the closest Catholic church I’ve never been to (until today).

Closing in on the one-year mark (and thus the conclusion of this project), yesterday, I went to Mass at Queen of the Angels church which is part of the two-church parish, Queen of the Apostles.