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Sold an SF poetry book ms to Diminuendo.Includes poems about gods, but none about demons.

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Entanglement (with Kendall Evans), diminuendo press, poetry, 2018, ISBN 13: 978-1-936021-56-7 (print)

A 2018 collaborative SF poetry book, eligible in the full-length book category for the Elgin award.  SFPA members,  email me (jopnquog@gmail.com) for a pdf to consider whether to nominate the book.

Update

This book has been nominated for the Elgin award.

Buy a print copy here for $8.99 https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/poets/meet-david-c-kopaska-merkel/

Or signed by me for the same price (postpaid) via paypal to jopnquog@gmail.com

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Social Dinosaurs

they watch us

to you or me, a crow

is a crow, but they know where you live

they know all

about you, and your trash

and how you treat your corvid neighbors

in quiet

nest speech they talk of love

but public caws are all about you

and your cat

they see you feeding her

you are on the list and all crows know

in Jonesville

and over to Waycross

in Willow Valley you're known on sight

your lights went

out in a blaze of sparks

shorted by feathered suicide squad

screwdriver

near the opened fuse box

crow ninjas had to pick toolbox lock

nestlings watch

they remember naughty

and nice, they keep _my_ shrubs beetle free

caw!!

If you like this::poem, why not check out the collection in which it was published,, Metastable Systems:


https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/760901