A poem by award-winning poet Ana Maria Caballero. Caballero's writing has won the Beverly International Prize for Literature, Colombia's José Miguel Arango National Poetry Prize + been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her NFTs are available via Fort Gallery NFT, MONOGRAMA NFT Gallery, Async.Art, Foundation, Etherpoems, HEN. anamariacaballero.com ++ "Offspring" is part of Blue Prints, a closed collection of five poems that subtly responds to the concept of a "roadmap" vis à vis the creative process. Rather than asking where art may lead, Caballero invites readers to consider where art comes from by sharing her own poetic practice. The media-rich poems in Caballero's Blue Prints collection are linked graphically but also thematically. Each poem approaches the question of what drives literary creation from a different perspective, but, in all, inevitability is palpable. For Caballero, writing is not a matter of choice or of destination--instead, writing is her blueprint, at once the origin, essence and design of her soul. ++ Offspring {What will I do with all these #poems The good ones won’t get ://published (Until one day they do) [But what about the ones The ones I_write abstracted (Or bored) They are #poemstoo] It always comes— “The ‘moment’ I release history” & plot my life as print}