Joe Cottonwood

Thank you so much for checking out my poems, your comments made me really happy xx I would love to check out your books too xx

Hi, 
          
          I am a new writer on wattpad. Request you to read and review my work. Your feedback will be very encouraging. Thank you!!!! 

Another poem about my daughter, dog bites, doll houses.
          https://www.wattpad.com/262694527-not-much-but-plenty-stray-dogs

I'm "republishing" a poem that I had to "unpublish" on Wattpad because a journal (Dove Tales) wanted to publish it as the closing piece in an anthology, which is quite an honor. It's out now, so once again I'm making the poem available here . And thank you, everybody who first appreciated it here. You gave me the confidence to send it out.
          https://www.wattpad.com/160633894-marriage-junkie-my-daughter-says

New poem about finding fossils on the beach:
          https://www.wattpad.com/248102166-each-day-fossil-beach

New poem:
          https://www.wattpad.com/243027060-not-much-but-plenty-under-halley's-comet

Previously I removed a poem called "Your Spirit Is A Shadow" because the publisher of an anthology wants to print it. Now with the anthology's permission, it's back where it belongs on Wattpad. (The anthology, by the way, is called "River Poets" and will come out later this year.)
          https://www.wattpad.com/175029842-the-beat-museum-poems-your-spirit-is-a-shadow

A couple of new poems. "Just a Gray Moth"
          https://www.wattpad.com/240135008-each-day-just-a-gray-moth
          and "Official Licensed Poet"
          https://www.wattpad.com/239582857-each-day-official-licensed-poet

I found you through a dedication someone gave you in their book. I am impressed by your bio and really look forward to reading your work. 50 years with the same woman is quite the accomplishment. Also, building your own home and watching your grandkids grow.. Really commendable. Rare this day in age. Anyways, just saying hi XO, Baya

Here's a poem I first wrote as a rough draft on Wattpad, now finished and published in a journal called Plum Tree Tavern. The poem is "Catamount, Late Summer"
          http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2016/03/catamount-late-summer.html
          Thanks to everybody who commented and helped to shape this poem. I had to temporarily remove it from Wattpad -- I'll repost it later, after the journal has had a fair run with it.