Of Stories We Want to Know ...

In June, I produced a RadioWest on Poetry and Politics. Not relevant to Polly's story, but it gave me the opportunity to spend some time talking to the poet Tom Sleigh. I kidnapped him from Park City to bring him to the studio - so we had about an hour of driving.

Now, I try not to bore too many people with my "project," but it came up organically. Of course, you know I'm not actually writing anything - just reading a bunch of books and daydreaming a lot. But as I was talking - this sentence came out with no warning:

"I don't really care if I write the book, I just want to know the story."

"Then you'll write it," said Tom, "because you're the only one who can."

I hope he's right.