What are all these countries and how did they appear?

[sovay]

The descent is easy, the trick is the return: I have parted paths in a dark wood with The Deadlands. The May issue will mark the last of my work as poetry editor, the Roman month of the restless dead. It was an honor to read and publish all of the grief-telling, ghost-talking, chthonically crossing work that came over the transom during my tenure. Whether you subscribed or merely enjoyed and said so, thank you for your support. This pomegranate interlude was one of the few consistent pleasures of a plague year. I wish you all well in your own underworlds.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Well now we can maybe look forward to your work in its pages!

Thank you for your generous time and hard work as editor!

[thistleingrey]

Thank you for your work as inaugural poetry editor!

[yhlee]

Congratulations on your work and thank you!

[pameladean]

You did a fabulous job. I was about to add, Don't look back! But I don't think that advice was for your job and return.

Welcome to the surface again.

P.

[selkie]

It's been heartening to watch your genre colleagues come out to wish you well as you move on to the next good thing.

*SHAKES THE JAR*

...You re-upped his miniature philosopher collision, dismemberment, and tiny deep thinky thoughts insurance, right?

[sara]

I hope it is a good transition and that there are wonderful new things on the horizon.

And I got a wool sweater out of the deal, so.

[nineweaving]

You were a fabulous psychopomp. You called forth verses from the vasty deep—and they came when you did call.

Nine

[sovay]

...You re-upped his miniature philosopher collision, dismemberment, and tiny deep thinky thoughts insurance, right?

He's insured against everything except acts of God and his own self-esteem.

*hugs*

[mrissa]

It was so lovely to work with you there.

[sovay]

It was so lovely to work with you there.

Thank you. Same.

[sovay]

You were a fabulous psychopomp. You called forth verses from the vasty deep—and they came when you did call.

I am so very glad they did.

[sovay]

Thank you for your generous time and hard work as editor!

Thank you! I loved being able to do it.

[sovay]

You did a fabulous job. I was about to add, Don't look back! But I don't think that advice was for your job and return.

It depends on what I'm trying to bring out with me.

Welcome to the surface again.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[sovay]

Congratulations on your work and thank you!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Thank you for your work as inaugural poetry editor!

Thank you! I will be fascinated to see what happens next.

[sovay]

I hope it is a good transition and that there are wonderful new things on the horizon.

Thank you.

And I got a wool sweater out of the deal, so.

I don't think I was the loser for the poem I got, either.