my crazy jane flash is out in the cabinet of heed

W.B. Yeats is the first poet whose work I knew very well. I loved his Crazy Jane poems when I first read them. I didn’t learn until recently, when I was doing research for THE LUNATICS’ BALL, that the literary archetype of Crazy Jane dates back much further, or that there were “wandering lunatics” throughout Ireland until the Famine, when the populace could no longer support them and lunatics were put in workhouses. My micro “Crazy Jane’s Cup of Tea” was inspired by that research. Really pleased to see it in THE CABINET OF HEED, my second appearance there. (Especially pleased that it’s an Irish journal, since I always worry about the authenticity of my flash set in Ireland. I was also very excited when the Irish writer James Claffey praised my flash "Prayer to St. Dymphna" a few months back when I posted it on Facebook.) Deep thanks to editor Simon Webster.