You think you see it
And it is there.
But life plays tricks.
The vision you seek
Does not appear
Here or anywhere.
Tell yourself
“There is nothing.”
Nothing is there.
Eric Beidel has written hundreds of poems, stories, and essays he kept private until now. He has worked as a reporter, night janitor, editor-for-hire, speechwriter, and bureaucrat. He still uses pencils and the hand-me-down typewriter he got when he was 12. A native Midwesterner, Eric now lives in the shadow of the Santa Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona, where he watches baseball and sunsets.