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
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After me, what’s left
On a social media post about an estate sale of works by a deceased artist, one person commented something like if they had not achieved a sustainable income and/or fame from their art by the time of their death, they would have everything burn. This person seemed angry that the deceased artist, who clearly had … Continue reading After me, what’s left
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
New series, Who dis?
Yeah. Maybe I'm back writing about Doctor Who. Mainly, because this 2024 restart will *smiles widely* offend so many, many people. I can't wait. And, in fact, I haven't. I'm just pausing for lunch. Yup. It's back. What's offended me: Disney claiming Doctor Who is their original program. Lol. They should have looked it up … Continue reading New series, Who dis?
Writing, interrupted
A long awaited update
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.
Writing Bec 