BEFORE AND AFTER...FOR A BOOK I WISH DID NOT EXIST

It's a moment.  It's always a moment when you see the first published book from what once were scrawled/printed on pieces of paper.  Here's a "Before" and "After" shot of VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA:

BEFORE

AFTER

The book's not ready for release yet, but ... it's a moment. And I want to wallow in it for a while because a new book, [insert pause] I was going to say, "a new book is always a blessing."  But, actually, this is the one book I wish didn't have to happen.  Because it surfaced only because of Typhoon Haiyan.

If one lives long enough, one lives long enough to see the unexpected, such as a book about which I write in my Editor's Introduction: "I conceptualized and serve as editor for this anthology--[but] I wish this book did not exist."

Ars Poetica: One's gotta do what one's gotta do.