ambition

I'm reading an amazing little book, "My Trade Is Mystery--Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing" by Carl Phillips. Meditations on ambition, stamina, silence, politics, practice, audience, community. Well worth a writer's attention. The way he turns the meanings of the words is surprising, deeply interesting.

ambition

this time,
to make what needs
to be said
closer
always failing
tenacity to try
again
again