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Halfway through the year I’ve been happy to continue with the run of surreal micropoetry month by month along with some longer pieces in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, and Sein und Werden. Even better was to see my first piece to appear in Eternal Haunted Summer – a short prose piece with mythic resonances.
My poem [it is not] which appeared in the Heliosparrow Poetry Journal last January was awarded a Special Award for Micronarrative by their editors.
I am pleased to report that my speculative micropoems from 2023 [by the fridge], [egoless at last], [tick], and [under] have been selected for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award and will soon be appearing in the printed anthology.
April
- Something Something Nothing
- dadakuku 2 April 2024 - "[for you darling]", “Fearsome predators”, “[312th floor]”, "[the bodies hang out tin signs]", and “[jewelled knees]” – Five Fleas April 15, 2024
- "[the palps]" - Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, April 15 2024
- "[we couldn’t sleep]" - Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, April 15 2024
- "[Syrtis was breached]" - Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, April 15 2024
- For moderate to severe agita, - dadakuku April 18
May
- “A Clarification” – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, May 2024
- “On an ark pilot”, “Aboriginals’ Revenge”, “To Dust”, and “Occam’s razor shaves society” – Star*Line 47.2
The third of these was chosen as one of the editor’s choices for the issue. - "[in tissue temples]", "[the alloy steel hips]", "[there could have been]", "[my mistress’s eyes]", and "[glass, vodka-clear]" – Five Fleas
- What books don’t say – dadakuku, May 25, 2024
June
- A line of prayers – Shot Glass Journal 43
- Flowers for Great-great-great-great-grandmother – Dreams and Nightmares, May 2024
- "[nothing but tail lights…]" – Under the Basho
- The Thylacine Manifesto – Sein und Werden “To Settle a Score”
- Swarming season – dadakuku, June 15th
- Some other waxwing – Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice 2024
- "[the seventh galaxy…]", "[with each tiptoe]", and "[neosilk rubbed]" – Five Fleas, June 27, 2024