Writing update 2024 (2/4)

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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 cups”, 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
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  • “On an ark pilot”, “Aboriginals’ Revenge”, “To Dust”, and “Occam’s razor shaves society” – Star*Line 47.2
  • “in tissue temples”, “the alloy steel hips”, “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
 
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