Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air

[sovay]

My poem "Heaven and Sea, Horatio," otherwise known as the drowned Hamlet poem, has been accepted by tithenai and mer_moon for their guest-edited issue of Mythic Delirium.

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[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Really looking forward to reading this one; I've brooded off and on for years about Hamlet's interstices.

(It was posted friendlocked here; Innokenty Smoktunovsky's Hamlet (1964) was the inspiration. You'll note the title was indeed not the right one.

What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea . . .
The very place puts toys of desperation,
Without more motive, into every brain
That looks so many fathoms to the sea
And hears it roar beneath.

And then it sparked an entire sequence of poems. Feel free to add to the discourse! erzebet is hoping to put them together as a book.)