Apparently August is Australian Poetry Month. Since I write poetry and am Australian I guess I should take part. Here's my little contribution. Something new, therefore unpolished. Postal mathsWhat's mine is delivered next door.What's yours is brought to me.Hence getting mail to (any of) our addresses is what postal maths is for. What goes around, … Continue reading Postal mathematics
Poetry
Slow start
I finally found the time, and the emotional, physical, and mental bandwidth to write, complete, edit, and submit a poem a couple of weeks ago. It was rejected and that felt...actually that felt pretty good. Writing something for it to be rejected is a tiny window of situation normal amidst an ever evolving multi-directional maelstrom … Continue reading Slow start
Bye July
Rejections: 44 Pending: 18 Accepted (3 carried over from 2022): 12 Published: 13
Or 10 writing things I know to be absolutely certain
A writing list and a link to a publication featuring a new poem.
The second hand unwinds
Quotes from Cyndi Lauper and Andrew Marvell, plus links to not one but new two new poems published this week.
Rules of threes
Tis said bad things come in threes. Not by me today, because good things come in threes with a third piece of work newly accepted and published all at once, today. It was never my intention to only post when I have something published, but when this happens, how can I not? So forgive this … Continue reading Rules of threes
Ekking phrastastic
A theory about forms of creativity interacting, and a link to a new poem.
All the small things
The writing update. There's been writing, plus, there's a link to a new story.
Readiness
Knowing my strengths leads to a new poem, out now.
Poesia published
A new poem, and I get struck by a new idea for a story.
Writing Bec 