One of my very favorite online poetry journals, Atrium Poetry, has published a poem of mine today.

A Couple of Sundays

Thank you to editors Claire Walker and Holly McGill.

The Up Side of Lonely

This poem of mine is set in the middle of a beautiful issue of Synaesthesia Magazine.

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THUNDER,LIGHTNING: The Up Side of Lonely

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— Synaesthesia Mag (@SynaesthesiaMag) December 4, 2014

Since You’ve Been Gone

 I am looking very carefully through the tall grass. The path goes from the garage to the well, and the key is gold. If I don’t find the key, I will have to ask the neighbor to saw the bolt. The bolt is expensive, and the neighbor has an unappealing gleam in his eye. I have not replaced the stolen chainsaw, which is not the proper saw for cutting bolts in any case. I may as well look for the washer that fell off the hose, a small, black rubber ring. Meanwhile, I just missed stepping in wild boar dung.

  

“If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.”

-Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897

 Quote given for the weekend 100-word at Light and Shade Challenge

Is Something Crawling on Me?

Will it ever stop? After I kicked in their nest, they kept coming. After I trampled their marching hoards, still they kept on, hefting bits of leaf and crumb. They slalom through the hairs on my arm, searching for a way in.

A 42-word answer to the question posed by gargleblaster-161 Is something crawling on me? Answer #24