That looks so many fathoms to the sea

[sovay]

This afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium #22, guest-edited by Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick of Goblin Fruit. I think the illustration for "Heaven and Sea, Horatio" is one of the best I've received for a poem: white on black under the full moon, drowned Hamlet lies with his face in the running tide, a starfish on his shoulder, a crab crouched on his hand; behind him slants the darkened sea. (Credit goes to Don Eaves and Terrence Mollander. They rock.) But the most important thing in a poetry magazine is the words, and I particularly recommend those to be found in Shweta Narayan's "Cave-smell," Shawna Lenore Kastin's "The Anchorite's Song," Susan Slaviero's "Madame Blavatsky's Ghost Visits the White Dog Café," and Gemma Files' "Jar of Salts." Some of them are illustrated, some bring their own delirium. They'll cling inside your head regardless.