The dry grass in the paths of dust
My poem "Drained" has been accepted by Not One of Us. I wrote it in the late summer following a conversation with my mother about a radio program she had heard on peat bogs and global warming. It is dedicated to the memory of Seamus Heaney and was additionally influenced by an accidental prompt from
radiantfracture in the form of a line from Corvyn Appleby's Pull Me from the Earth (2021): "What parts of your body have fallen away? Do you miss them?" As noted on their current and temporary website, NOU has been having internet hassles but is still quite extant: you should be sending them work. They remain my market of longest standing and each new issue never fails to delight and/or disturb me. Most often and.

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Thank you! (I still haven't played the game, but I love the lines I've seen quoted from it.)