Tom Petty was right on the money when he said “that waiting is the hardest part.” Of course, I’m pretty sure he was talking about a woman, but I feel that most things in life can be succinctly explained using a Tom Petty song (I will argue incessantly for the stance that Petty is one of the great songwriters of last half of the twentieth century – and is still going strong, I might add).

I am not talking about women or men, of course. Or least, not in their capacity as objects of sexual desire.

We are still talking about my recent submissions to Saw Palm.

They are now evaluating another poem – The Creatures of Prometheus in Gulfport, Florida.

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem/lyric drama, Prometheus Unbound, is a personal favorite, as is Ludvig von Beethoven’s ballet score for The Creatures of Prometheus (interestingly, he cannibalized part of the score for his Eroica Symphony – which I also love, but because of an adolescent misreading, I always think of it as the “Erotica” not “Eroica” Symphony, and so find the piece to by inextricably wound up with thoughts of passionate, Romantic-era sex).

In any case… hoping that Winnona Pasquini is move amenable to Creatures than she was to Coffeeshop.