The Pinch just published a short piece of mine, “Falcon Storm Song.” My very first published short story (“My Rockstar Life”) appeared in the same literary journal, back when it was called River City, in 2000. It’s good to be back home in the pages where I began.
This piece is a kind of rhapsody on my favorite line from Rilke, from his poem “Widening Circles.”
I especially like the way it sounds in the orginal German: “Bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm oder ein großer Gesang?” And I still don’t know the answer to the question, although I would like it to be, “Yes.”
