It's fair to say we were the ghosts we used to want to come to our town and haunt

[sovay]

My poems "Plures" and "Digging In" are now online at microverses: a hub for tiny speculative narratives.

The first was written almost exactly a year ago; it is perhaps more terrible than its original impetus that it doesn't read like it. The second has its roots, literally, in a cornfield visited by me and selkie in the fall of 2019, by which I might as well now mean the other side of the moon; it was written last fall and came out a spell.

I don't know if I would call them a nice per se note to go out of the year on, but their publication makes me very happy. I love the photos chosen to accompany both. I include the murder corn for completeness' sake.

Comments

[cmcmck]

'Murder corn' is a very fine name!

[sovay]

'Murder corn' is a very fine name!

It was some fine corn!

[thisbluespirit]

Congratulations! I am very glad that the Murder Corn also found a place to be appreciated. XD

[sovay]

Congratulations! I am very glad that the Murder Corn also found a place to be appreciated.

Thank you!

[pengwern]

Congrats on the publications and (?) the murder corn! What good shapes they make.

[sovay]

Congrats on the publications and (?) the murder corn! What good shapes they make.

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

I love these both so much. SO MUCH.

And the photo is just so, so marvelous. (And your poem is perfect for it. Perfect!)

And if the new yer finds us sitting on the black couch, gazing into the corn with our flinty eyes and our wrung-out hearts, SO BE IT. (The light still rises from the corn and the foxtails magnificently)

[sovay]

I love these both so much. SO MUCH.

Thank you!

And the photo is just so, so marvelous. (And your poem is perfect for it. Perfect!)

I am still pleased about the photo, but it was just there to take. It just looked like that.

(The light still rises from the corn and the foxtails magnificently)

(It does.)

[gwynnega]

Congratulations! (Yay murder corn!)

[sovay]

Congratulations! (Yay murder corn!)

Thank you!

[selkie]

I’m so glad the photo was there for you to take. You got good stuff out of the murder corn.

[sovay]

I’m so glad the photo was there for you to take. You got good stuff out of the murder corn.

I suspect there's a lot in the murder corn to work with.

*hugs*