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Current goings-on On my latest writing update page I have listed poems that were published last month.

January 2026 Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺🇮🇪 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I finally managed it ... 9:16 PM • January 3, 2026 (UTC) Adam Dalliance @pre@boing.world So farewell then Microsoft Office.

April In search of like minds and Hello neighbor – Star*Line, Issue 49.2 [her bodice fell away] – Prune Juice, Issue 48 Memo from your smart doorbell – dadakuku, 11 April 2026

January Spring-Summer 2026 – Star*Line 49.1 Give to all today – Abyss and Apex Issue 97 [into blood] – Smols, 4 January 2026

Me and I.

Capture by Sjoerd Los on Flickr January 2025 bornach @bornach@vis.social Penrose triangle rendered using cubes.

October Ode to a syringe – Dreams and Nightmares 131 [deli fresh], [it is all rotten], and [as flesh and metal] – Five Fleas, 10 October 2025 The spellbinder – Penumbric vol ix, issue 3 [mass … shame], [up up], and [butter plates] – smols, 16 October 2025…

The next milestone for Voyager 2's mission is in six centuries.

Figure from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1902 April Groats in the broth of heaven – Abyss and Apex, 2nd quarter 2025 Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age and It is all around – Star*Line 48.2 [aggressive], [the dark pub], and [rocketdude] – Five Fleas,

Here I am.

Capture by Luca Rossato on Flickr January Its boughs tangled in starlanes, Getting to know you less and less, A big red one coughed, and Undoing the deeds – Star*Line 48.1 Coin of the realm – dadakuku January 5, 2025 Wandering through Sinai and Want or wa…

Public domain October How we came to enter the thought hotel, The come to Noah moment, One part per ten billion, "[they left us nothing]", and Data plant – Star*Line 47.4 Slow down why don’t you?

Capture by helaku h on Flickr January 2024 Shantell Powell @Shanmonster@c.im #classics #pigeon #odyssey #odysseus 11:33 AM • January 16, 2024 (UTC) February 2024 Corey S Powell @coreyspowell@mastodon.social For a little dose of perspective: Here's a parti…

Capture by Pedro Ribeiro Simões on Flickr During the first part of this last quarter I have been feeling as though my published pieces are coming along a tiny bit slower than the first two.

Public domain 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.

Capture by Klaus Stiefel on Flickr The first three months of the year had the usual crop of surreal micropoetry and a few print and online publications of speculative poetry.

Capture by internetarchivebookimages on Flickr January 2023 Randy Lubin @randylubin@dice.camp Works entering the public domain include: Written work by: Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf Art…

Capture by Jonathan Cutrer on Flickr I finished off the year with a whole bunch of poems online and in print.

Capture by terren in Virginia on Flickr July It’s only vacuum out there, Bouquets for post-humanity ,Open House, and Spar - Star*Line 46.3 Incoming message - Songs of Eretz Zoom reading, Arctic summer and Field of mustard, Sein und Werden, 1 July 2023 Live

I have a milestone to reach this Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 when I should (by my best estimate, assisted by Wolfram Alpha) pass the age of 2,000,000,000 seconds.

95838767 © Publicdomainphotos | Dreamstime.com Once again we are moving, this time all the way back to the East Coast of the United States to the state of Delaware.

Capture by Robynne Blume on Flickr I had an awful time building the blog because of errors fetching content from Twitter.

Capture by oatsy40 on Flickr April when the gotchaberries bloom again, - dadakuku True vacuum, Flying the Carboniferous, and Countup - Star*Line 46.2 "[Century 31]" ,"[triangles for lunch]", "[curtsies to Dalmatia]", and "[egoless at last]" Five Fleas Sar…

Capture by Apple Boutique on Flickr Over the last two weeks I have been working on relearning the violin, an instrument I haven’t played in decades and one with a notoriously tough learning curve which probably means there is no possible route to mastery…

Capture by ken_mayer on Flickr I’m starting the new year off at a modest, steady rate but I know of a bunch more pieces which are due to come out in the next few months as well, so I’ll be announcing those soon.

Capture by Les Halstead on Flickr I’ve been on the platform for a number of years, but have been following the crowd reducing the exposure to the turmoil on Twitter.

Capture by Dietmar Down Under on Flickr I've been doing my best to close out the calendar year strong with this set of poems in print, some of which I had been awaiting for over twelve months.

I’m bumping up the version of Hugo from 0.92.0 to 0.101.0 and specifying nodejs 14.x instead of 11.x at Netlify, so I’m moving my content to a new structure from the older version.

Publishing was a little slower during the rest of the summer into the beginning of Fall, though I am optimistic about a bunch of new pieces which will come out in the next few months.

Here is the next group of my published work this year, another thirty titles online, in print, and even streaming audio.

An iron arm, of Italian workmanship I decided to write about some numbers about receiving rejections after I saw a tweet: Writers don’t share every rejection, only the acceptances, so I expect most of us probably have very skewed ideas about each other’s…

Last year was my most active year when it came to having poetry appear in print.

Photo by Jason Dent on Unsplash I had a good year getting my poetry published both online and in print, and I wanted to have a full list up summarizing what is out there for anyone interested.

We went to Massachusetts at the end of July for the first long trip since the pandemic started.

I thought I’d put out another collection of tidbits I ran across that give me ideas of things I might want to do or create.

Like most people, I like roaming around the web looking for cool things, and sometimes get the feeling that I’ve run across something worth bookmarking, something I want to mull over in the future.

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash Here is where you can find where I published my speculative poetry in 2020.

Photo by Muzammil Soorma on Unsplash There is a controversy out just now about whether holders of doctoral degrees other than medical doctors ought to use the title of Doctor before their names.

This is my two hundred fiftieth review on Goodreads since 2010.

unsplash-logoJason Abdilla I read a piece today about how prolonged stress can lead to persistent fatigue in a person who might be at a loss as to an obvious cause, and I’m thinking that that is what’s going on with me now.

unsplash-logoClark Van Der Beken I like saying “I’m entering my seventh decade” today.

Here is a time capsule from the Covid-19 plague year for future readers who might be interested in what it was like around these times.

unsplash-logoEugene Triguba Last week we picked up our fifth car this month, a white Nissan Versa.

© Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Free photo ID 82985451 © creativecommonsstockphotos | Dreamstime.com The disturbing thing that happens as you age, I find, is that you begin to notice your mind working subtly differently from the way it used to.

© Melinda Nagy Free photo ID 582639 | Dreamstime.com The sudden violent death of someone in our extended family has brought back some thoughts of a philosophical nature to the surface for me.

© publicdomainstockphotos Free photo ID 84930337 | Dreamstime.com This is the third year I engaged in the discipline of writing and posting a poem on the Yahoo groups Scifaiku list I’ve been a member of for a dozen years or so.

© creativecommonsstockphotos ID 95931871 | Dreamstime.com Moving from one part of the the San Francisco Bay Area to another seems like it should be a pretty minor change, but it’s actually been the biggest thing that happened with me in the last six month…

© Alexey Kondratev ID 8616636 | Dreamstime.com By this time four weeks from now we will have moved to a new place in Alameda.