His black and white faces go running by

[sovay]

Two poems of mine are now online, a few minutes early for June: "Madonna of the Cave" at Lone Star Stories and "Lamellae (Hipponion and Cambridge)" at Ideomancer. The former was written on a prompt from handful_ofdust, the latter more or less as its note says. Otherwise I would draw your particular attention to Leah Bobet's "The Parable of the Shower" and Jacqueline West's "Arsinoë's Sister," also Marcie Lynn Tentchoff's "Grace in the Desert" and Larry Hammer's "At Death's Door," but both tables of contents are rather awesome. The world should be full of good art. It's the proper order of things.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Love your "Lamellae," love your willow catkins and your squabble of goslings. And I have to say, meant to e-mail you, that I've been reading through Sybil's Garage, and when I realized which poem "Skiadas" was, I was so happy to see it again--that's one I really love, remember you writing.

Oh I **love** Larry's poem. I love sestinas. And that story by Leah Bobet was just perfect--really, really wonderful. The other poems you linked to were beautiful as well, but Larry's poem and Leah's story in particular I loved. (I want to go back and look at Ideomancer not just from your links but from its own presentation--I was impressed by how both Larry's poem and Marcie's had a desert theme, and yours too had a parched promise :-)

[sovay]

And I have to say, meant to e-mail you, that I've been reading through Sybil's Garage, and when I realized which poem "Skiadas" was, I was so happy to see it again--that's one I really love, remember you writing.

Thank you! That one is important to me, so I am especially glad.

Oh I **love** Larry's poem. I love sestinas.

I didn't notice it was a sestina until I got to the last stanza . . .

I want to go back and look at Ideomancer not just from your links but from its own presentation--I was impressed by how both Larry's poem and Marcie's had a desert theme, and yours too had a parched promise

It's a good magazine. You should send them stuff.

[larryhammer]

I didn't notice it was a sestina until I got to the last stanza

Oh excellent. That means I did it at least somewhat right.

---L.