Bruce Whealton: Existential Writing

My poem “An Infinite Beach” appears in the zine, Wild Goose Poetry Review, the spring 2010 issue, which is here: http://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/an-infinite-beach/

At the request of the editor, Scott Owens, I submitted a commentary. I think that is a unique idea to publish author commentaries with the poems, and a unique request – I mean I don’t usually get asked for a commentary when I am published.
I included this commentary on the poem: “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.”