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BeautifulChaos

  • Avarice

    This was a task my english teacher set for her grade 12 class and I thought I'd give it a try. The instructions were as follows: write a short story ...

    • Short Story
    • Fantasy
    2 min read


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch