Before the reaper gathers us up

[sovay]

My poem "Digging In" has been accepted by microverses: a hub for tiny speculative narratives. It is a new market for me and my first acceptance of the year and I refuse not to celebrate it, because it is as real as the rest of the day. The poem has its roots, literally, in a cornfield visited by me and selkie in November 2019, which truly does not feel more than a year ago. It came out a spell.

Comments

[selkie]

I miss you fiercely every time I see this damn evil susurrating corn. You dressed up and got on a train and, and, and for one thing how can it be more than a year, for another thing you got an incantation-poem from it that tied up so many things into one punch of seething vengeful.... something, and now it has a HOME.

[sovay]

You dressed up and got on a train and, and, and for one thing how can it be more than a year, for another thing you got an incantation-poem from it that tied up so many things into one punch of seething vengeful.... something, and now it has a HOME.

I am so glad it does.

(It shouldn't be more than a year. That part's just wrong.)

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[yhlee]

Yay poem!

[sovay]

Yay poem!

Thank you!

[pameladean]

The poem is at least as real. It will do good true things, so long as men can breathe or eyes can see.

P.

[sovay]

The poem is at least as real. It will do good true things, so long as men can breathe or eyes can see.

Thank you.

[cyphomandra]

Congratulations!! And that is a whole bunch of narratives in a photograph.

(also, commiserations on the coup attempt, which is appalling enough from here)

[sovay]

Congratulations!! And that is a whole bunch of narratives in a photograph.

Thank you!

(And thank you.)

[thisbluespirit]

Congratulations! ♥

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[mrissa]

"I refuse not to celebrate it" is my battle cry. Congratulations.

[sovay]

"I refuse not to celebrate it" is my battle cry. Congratulations.

Thank you.

(Mine has been af tselokhes.)

[troisoiseaux]

Congrats!!!!!!

[sovay]

Congrats!!!!!!

Thank you!

[choco_frosh]

Congratulations!!

[sovay]

Congratulations!!

Thank you!

[aurumcalendula]

Congrats!

[sovay]

Congrats!

Thank you!

[ashlyme]

So the murdercorn had a good harvest, and now a harvest-home. I'm so glad.

[sovay]

So the murdercorn had a good harvest, and now a harvest-home. I'm so glad.

*hugs*

Thank you!

[umadoshi]

my first acceptance of the year and I refuse not to celebrate it

Any acceptance is worth celebrating! *hugs* Yay!

[sovay]

Any acceptance is worth celebrating!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[kathmandu]

Congratulations!

I am always impressed that anyone can ever get poetry published at all.

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

I am always impressed that anyone can ever get poetry published at all.

I still mourn some of the markets that have shuttered since I started publishing, but I like that new ones are coming up all the time. The ecosystem is doing its best, like all the rest of us, to survive.

[minoanmiss]

*Cheers mightily*

[sovay]

*Cheers mightily*

Thank you!

[thawrecka]

Congrats!

[sovay]

Congrats!

Thank you!

[swan_tower]

Woot!

[sovay]

Woot!

Thank you!

[dramaticirony]

Woo hoo, congrats!

[sovay]

Woo hoo, congrats!

Thank you!