Bruce Whealton: Existential Writing

I just got the great news that my poem, “An Infinite Beach” is going to be featured in the online journal “Wild Goose Poetry Review” – their spring edition, due out in mid-May. I was asked to come up with a commentary on the poem, so this is what I wrote:
“I wrote this poem thinking about the things that really matter and that endure. A sense of the infinite, or of joy and love is sometimes noticed in certain moments that stand out in your mind… those moments when you stop, forget about everything else and realize that this, right now, is all that matters, all that will endure. Often we get so distracted and driven by various impulses. So, I thought of a time when that was different for me. I wrote about love. The beach is also very inspirational for me, when I want to write.”

This is part of a collection I am putting together called “What Really Matters.” From that collection, my poem, “I wrote a love poem” is featured in two publications, “Houston Literary Review,” and UNCW’s Talon Magazine.