Should it bother me when it's really gone beyond what anyone expected?

[sovay]

My poem "Facilior" is now online at inkscrawl. That was fast. Everything I said about it here is still true.

My poem "Aristeia" is now online at Apex Magazine. I had a migraine when I wrote it in December 2011. It's about chronic pain and art. Ἀριστεία means "excellence" in classical Greek; in epic it refers to a moment of great heroism (trans. TV Tropes, "Crowning Moment of Awesome"). I couldn't write the poem I was trying to that cold Monday, but I like the one I got.

Last night was a mixed bag of nightmares, but it is a new month this morning. I am now reading submissions for Strange Horizons for the months of April and May. Send me poems! The world is full of great writing I haven't seen yet! No joke.

Comments

[phi]

Hooray for poems! I really like Facilior. I think I need to read Aristeia when I can give it my full attention and not in stolen moments between tasks at work.

[sovay]

Hooray for poems! I really like Facilior.

Thank you! Yay.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Yays! (Is that even a word?) Anyway, all of that to the poems.

I wish you a better April. Look for a poem soon!

[sovay]

Yays! (Is that even a word?)

It is now! Thank you!

Look for a poem soon!

Yay!

[gwynnega]

Excellent poems! Sorry to hear about the nightmares.

I will be sending you a poem soon.

[larryhammer]

I especially like "Facilior".

---L.

[sovay]

Excellent poems!

Thank you! I am especially pleased about "Aristeia"; it is one of very few poems I have wrested out of that kind of physical pain and I think it's the better for it.

Sorry to hear about the nightmares.

Other than the poetry news, watching Hellboy, and eating a calzone, honestly, today mostly sucked. I'm hoping tomorrow's an improvement.

I will be sending you a poem soon.

Yay!

[sovay]

I especially like "Facilior".

Thank you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A lovely offering of poems for National Poetry Month! Thank you.

[sovay]

A lovely offering of poems for National Poetry Month! Thank you.

You're welcome! I'd forgotten it was the right month for it . . .

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad for the poems' going online. Sorry for the nightmares. I wish you a happy April.

[sovay]

I wish you a happy April.

It's not doing terribly so far.