Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Two of my poems are in the Horror Senryu Journal for March 25, https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/

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In college we did stuff like, using the proportion of different elements in the human body, calculate how many atoms were in each of our bodies. Going on from there, as one does, we calculated the distance between the Earth and the Sun in millimeters, and micrometers, and then the same thing to Alpha Centauri. Good times.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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the small snores of cat

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At 1 millionth of a degree above absolute zero, helium is still trying to climb out of its beaker, like the coldest amoeba there could ever be. One more millionth of a degree gone, and it all falls apart. The center cannot hold. Nothing can hold. And there is no temperature, because there is nothing. How cool is that?

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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I spend the night in the Mage's marble tomb
the reeking lich moves over to give me room

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Yesterday I got my award for winning the 2023 Elgin for best full length speculative poetry collection (for Some Disassembly Required). I had completely forgotten that there was a physical award. It's curved glass, engraved, and fairly heavy. I hope it's also difficult to break, but I didn't experiment with that. Place of Honor on the mantle, and all that.

Monday, March 25, 2024