Another Loop Round

Last year, I wrote: “Social isolation has been good for my resolve.” Only in some things, as it happens.

Away from this sadly neglected web site, my writing proceeds apace. Verses continue to appear in print and online. Five poems appeared online this year; two more appeared in print. Five more have been accepted and are due for publication in various formats this spring. In addition to the verse, I’ve been writing many short pieces of memoir, finally writing down some of my family’s stories. I’ve finally gotten a few in close enough to final shape to send out for consideration.

Last March, Friends Journal published my first observation on the COVID-19 pandemic, “Distance from the Storm.”

One of my favorite poems about Warren (aw heck, all my poems about Warren are my favorites), “Deer Season” was elegantly presented in the Winter 2020 issue of Hawk and Whippoorwill.

In the spring, in their April 21, 2021 issue, Masque and Spectacle published a take on a tragic historical event as I remembered it from my childhood: “Witness.”

Last summer, two more of my poems found their way online. The Adriatic published “Fairyland,” on page 20 of their Pride issue. It’s a sonnet about the garden Warren has made of our backyard, a verse version of all those photographs I take. And the June 2021 8th issue of Feral presents a brief meditation on loss among the stars, “Cygnus.”

Speaking of the stars, also last summer, the print literary magazine Capsule Stories published my sonnet, “Cloak of Night,” in their lovely Starry Nights issue.

Bringing this list up to date, another of my sonnets, “Eons of Winters” appeared earlier in this year’s Dead of Winter II printed anthology from Milk & Crate Press. I was thrilled to learn that they chose to kick off this marvelous collection with my poem on the first page.