Yes. Feast your eyes. I am centrepiece, after all. Summer’s expanding belly come to laze, somnolent. The sun, a kind benevolence on this good life. Eat your fill and be done. I siesta, waiting for you, of all the ways you’ll bite . . .
*My greatest thanks to Visual Verse for publishing my poem this month ❤ And so nice to see many of my fellow bloggers also make it in! It’s like we’ve got VV covered! From all the submissions in the world, the WP bloggers are all over it 🙂
I heard Saturn ate his babies to stop them taking his power. Icy moons with hearts of fire they ruptured then hung in orbit reborn and broken. Saturn nestles into rings of resculpted newborns.
*February’s been kind of unreal for publications! Sometimes, you don’t hear back from editors at all and then you get more than one acceptance in the same month. It’s made up for a stressful month. I hope you like this latest offering. Though I actually wrote it about two years ago. I’d change the title if I could, I just couldn’t think of a better title. My greatest thanks to Green Ink Poetry for publishing it in their latest Collection: Cosmos ❤
Into the balmy blue of a spring wind. Premature and devouring. Earth air grows green in the midday lens. Some kind of humbug illusion. I came dressed for adventure. Where were you? I waited. Watched…
I had a little arts publication recently with Messy Misfits Club, which I’m delighted to tell you about. I’m unable to share the whole issue but I’ve attached screen shots of my work for you.
I originally created these paintings for an arts challenge I did in 2021 (Inktober). Meander was a response to the prompt word knot, and Ultra Violet was a response to the prompt word Lush, both created using ink, watercolour and gel pen on paper.
Then, a couple of months ago, MMC had an arts callout for their 4th issue under the theme Dreamscape and I thought I’d send a few pieces their way. I wasn’t sure if they really fit the theme. But you know how things just kind of loom out at you all of a sudden during dreams? I figured they had that sort of quality about them. And the above two pieces were accepted so it worked out fine.
It’s quite a young zine so I felt like a bit of a dino amongst the other contributors! But what the hell. Nobody cares about that really. It’s a lovely issue with some great poems and artwork throughout. Kind of punk meets chewing gum. You can purchase a print copy, or request a free digital copy, via their website under the Shop tab.
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I also had the wonderful news recently that my two erasure poems Nomad and Revelation, originally published in Issue viii of Free Verse Revolution: Guinevere, have also been published in Free Verse’s annual anthology featuring the best work of the year under the theme Truthtellers. I’m so pleased to be part of this anthology, it’s packed full of beautiful work and it’s lovely to be picked for it. You may purchase a print copy here if you wish. However, if any of my longstanding fellow bloggers are over their spending limit this month but would still love to read a copy, (cause you simply can’t buy everyone’s new book / journal / chapbook, right? Who’s made of money like that?) message me via the contact form and I can email you a digital copy for free.
On another note, I’ve been listening to a lot of Joanna Newson recently. Here’s The Book of Right-on from her album The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004). Finger-plucking awesome!
Sunra Rainz 