sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2026-03-21 02:58 pm

You are just the fingertips of something

The afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #86, containing my poem "Northern Comfort." I wrote it out of my discoveries of the ghost-ground that has been directly underfoot all my life and longer, from King Philip's War to Pomp's Wall, and this administration and its murderous terror of history. It shares a page and an issue of emptiness with a precisely targeted incantation by Gwynne Garfinkle as well the equally hollowing fiction and poetry of Kris Schokrowsky, Penny Durham, Carsten Cheung, Jennifer Crow, and more. I almost referred to the covert art by John and Flo Stanton, obscured by shattered webs of negative space or the rust-light of abandoned industries. Subscribe! Contribute! Make the right kind of strangeness in this world. I am off to South Station to collect one north-traveling seal.
gwynnega: (Leslie Howard mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2026-03-21 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I look forward to my copy! How great that our poems share a page.