I'll send you this song from my room

[sovay]

This afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #65, containing my poem "The Bargain." It is my first publication of the new year; it is an underworld poem with pomegranates and time and it is splendidly surrounded by the fiction and poetry of Alexandra Seidel, Steve Toase, Gwynne Garfinkle, Francesca Forrest, and Finn Clarke among others in an especially strong winter-themed issue. May it buy what it was written to.

spatch spent a heroic number of hours on the phone with bureaucracy this morning and afternoon, so we have ordered in dinner, dammit.