new toy
big bucks
ahoy matey
now we wait
for spring

new toy
big bucks
ahoy matey
now we wait
for spring
Happy Thursday, dear readers! Two new poems of mine just came out today in the inaugural issue of The Marbled Sigh. I hope you’ll enjoy them!
I’d like to thank all of you for your continued support. Your encouragement is a precious, wonderful thing and I am so grateful!! 
porches rah-rah with team spirit
alma mater colors: flags, caps and tees
each side aspires to game day glory
size 11, scarcely-used needles
skein from an old stash of yarn
random YouTube tutorial
high today, upper 90’s
another lazy day
of Netflix & Apple TV
poetic departure
a blank & empty slate
in need of the muse’s touch
I received a $2 payment – don’t laugh; most journals don’t pay anything at all! – AND a contributor’s copy in the mail today for two poems that I’d forgotten had been accepted – in JUNE of 2022!
The form is called scifaiku (sy-fi-KU) and the journal is called Scifaikuest. Here’s their blurb:
“Scifaikuest” is actually two magazines–one online and one print–specializing in scifaiku and other minimalist poetry forms forms, notably senryu, haibun, and tanka, as well as cinquains, fibonacci, etc. Both online and print magazines feature poetry and articles.
My poems, er, scifaiku, don’t appear online so here are a few snaps from their lovely journal. Thanks for looking! 🙂



four years running
thirty-one postcards
each 4×6 poetic canvas
NOTE: Here’s the link for the PPF for anyone interested in participating in next year’s Fest!!
another school year begins
new notebooks, pencils, backpacks
tiny feet running toward old friends
My first attempt at writing a sonnet, sin & retribution, appears in the 2023 August Issue of The Minison Project: Shakespeare’s Sonnet Reimagined.
You can find it by clicking on the icon for Issue 19, Mythological Minison Vol. 3, which is available here.
My poem can be found on page 12 of the PDF. Please check it out and I hope you’ll like it!
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