Fiction & Verse
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Recent Writing
This Moment, Then, At Last Arrives – Janaku
Janaku poetry, created by Filipino poet Eileen Tabios, is a haiku-like form written in unrhymed one-word, two-word, then three-word lines.
Reading Chair – Ae Freislighe
The ae freislighe poem is an older Irish quatrain form which opens and closes on the same word or phrase; here that full circle, though, is a turn in tone.
Predictive Text
Right now I’d rather be stupid and alive than, well, let me talk this through. But if this somehow gets to you today, it’s it’s Tuesday then people then get people up here, OK? I mean right now. But.
My Arms Aloft – A Tanka
Two speakers exchange tanka. What is coded?
From Chevy to Ford
“Okay. Well, I’m just gonna say that your popular media inspired me to a new level of decadence. I mean, I’m like a Darkseid MMA version of the WWE. You know the word ‘turpitude?’”
You- A Shadorma
More poetic forms that did not appear in Unwoven. Here is a brief shadorma, an older poem from Spain, here transplanted to a Michigan September.
Serial Fiction
Accidia
Begins February 2025
Novel
ImageMaker: First Shade
Premiere of Olenthe Series:
Early works now available
Short Story
Story 4
On How Murder is Sometimes Justified