When the signals were green, did you sit by the line and watch for the fire in the sky?

[sovay]

I got compared to John M. Ford and my brain blew a fuse. It isn't that I don't take the opinion seriously, but the circuitry is still going to need to sputter for a bit.

(I do think there is quite a lot of good speculative poetry out there. I wouldn't have been an editor of it if I didn't.)

Comments

[selkie]

< black cat filing claws dot gif >

[sovay]

< black cat filing claws dot gif >

Direct smugness gets the goods?

[dewline]

Yeah, I can see that as a pleasant shock. Emphasis on "shock", at least for a while.

[sovay]

Yeah, I can see that as a pleasant shock. Emphasis on "shock", at least for a while.

Thank you. I don't even think of us as writing the same kinds of poetry.

[gwynnega]

That is excellent.

[sovay]

That is excellent.

Thank you. It was entirely unexpected.

[sara]

You're probably objectively pretty good. I usually find spec fic poetry irritating, but I actually read yours.

[sovay]

I usually find spec fic poetry irritating, but I actually read yours.

I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me.

[pengwern]

It took a little searching for me to realize where I'd seen Ford from (the two star trek novels he wrote with those distinctive covers, which I know I enjoyed, and of which I remember nothing because that was in sixth grade), but now I have a full row of tabs open, so ty for being a nexus (or a wonderful station?) of lovely poetry \o/

[sovay]

but now I have a full row of tabs open, so ty for being a nexus (or a wonderful station?) of lovely poetry

You're welcome! (I have those Star Trek novels, too.)