Dreams and Nightmares 130 update

All subscriber copies have now been mailed. Contributor copies should be mailed tomorrow. By the end of the week I should be caught up reading submissions for future issues.

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the new grass
seed heads wave far above us
in the breeze

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computer virus
sneezing your lungs
into the keyboard

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dawn boils the lake
fish quickly learn to fly
right into our pans

DN 130 update

I have mailed some of the subscriber copies. the rest should go out today or Monday. then contributors by the end of the week. Blame repeated hospitalization, but I'm about ready to start laying out number 131. I need a few more poems for it, so now's your chance! and if it won't fit in the September issue, there is always January of next year. I still pay $15 Plus a print copy of the magazine.

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When I was a child we had one of those modern Danish couches, of which my parents were very proud. The underside of the couch was a single layer of thin fabric sewn all the way around the edge, covering whatever else was there. Our cats tore a hole in this fabric and they used to climb into that space a few inches above the floor to take naps. Poking them through the fabric was fun, as long as you didn't get caught by the claws that furiously poked through it.

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David C. Kopaska-Merkel, four poems (all ku), print, "we gather," "cat lady," "full moon," fangs poke through," Scifaikuest, May, 2025, www.hiraethsffh.com