I fully intended to write this post on Friday when the story went live, but I was caught up in a few things…still aiming to finish several projects my COVID bout derailed, and the end-of-year-rush, and also my NaNo novel. Oh yeah, I kinda did NaNo this year. Only it lasted longer than the month […]
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New poem: “From Summerland” out in Strange Horizons
…and when you wander the orchards,your robe’s light, long sleeves swimmingwith your motion, the trees bear fruitand flower on the same branch—both delicious (of course I’ve tasted the petals too; if anything I have only becomemore curious, knowing now how much more there isto learn). Or you can roll up those sleeves to dosome gentle […]
Continue Reading....Many Midsummer Updates
Lots of news, for all I’m feeling quiet. I always go into something of a lull in late June and early July. Maybe it’s the heat (although here near the Great Lakes we’ve been much luckier than a lot of people temperature-wise). Maybe it’s the grief-iversary at the end of June. Or my birthday earlier […]
Continue Reading....Reading, Writing, and Publishing Poetry
I’ve talked about it in my newsletter and on social media, but I’m not sure I’ve yet broken the news here on this blog that my longstanding interest in reading poetry has, over the past year or so, turned into an interest in writing poetry. It’s not completely out of nowhere – in 2018 I […]
Continue Reading....“By Steam or By Sail”: a prose poem
My prose poem about being bisexual and in lust (with people of all genders, and with words, particularly boat metaphors), and a bit of kink if you want to read into my cable metaphors, is up at Litro Magazine as their Friday Flash! You are strung with cables humming in high winds, singing like the […]
Continue Reading....National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, so I’m going to pretend that’s the reason I’ve lately been reading and posting a lot of poetry on my Tumblr. Actually it’s a happy coincidence. I’ve rediscovered poetry, as I do every few years, and this spring I’m making more of an effort to share about the books I […]
Continue Reading....Poem in Cliterature Journal
In an exciting slip into a new genre, I have a poem, “Stiff-Necked in Respect Life Month,” out in Cliterature’s latest issue–Birth Control. As you might expect from the title, it’s about a struggle with Catholicism on many fronts (and was actually written in October). It is, for now, the final home of a first line […]
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