Reprise: When you’re in a bad mood you should write."

"Ernest Hemingway, 1961," a poem by Michael Hogan

Originally published on How to Grow a Poem October 7, 2023.

Michael Hogan found some of the images on the street. In the gutter, no less: ". . . brown cigarette butts,/orange peels, used condoms;” “. . . stale beer and bad whiskey;” “. . . a weed-choked yard.” Even “. . . this dazzling pellet rain.”

The images matched his mood, after all, some 45 or so ye…