CELEBRATION

Yes. I'm posting two days in a row. Wanted to celebrate that Open Minds Quarterly in Canada is buying my poem "Empty Cup Fallen On Its Side" for its spring issue. Look for it in May.

Some money is changing hands. Haven't experienced that since the Anglo-Welsh Review bought two poems way back when. I'm including a photo that someone took of me at about the time I wrote the poem in August, 1992. It's taken in front of the old farmhouse (my hermitage) I lived in for two very transcendent years just before I bought the little, gray house on Cannon Street in Spokane, Washington in which the poem entered my life. 
 

I'M STILL HERE

Hello! I'm still alive. The high risk cancer has not yet got me. Still writing (mostly rewriting) and fearfully sending things out. This photo came awhile back, a selfie, using a Nikon on a tripod. I was thinking of creating a website at the time and wanted an intellectual snap. Dreamy, looking up at the Cosmos.

    Recently, I copied out the last three chapters and the first chapter of Ghoul World, my scifi novel, worked each around a bit to submit to science fiction magazines. They are still doing well and pay their writers. So I'm giving them a shot. A little money might feel nice. Kestrel magazine is out, and I should receive my complimentary copies soon. Will be nice to see a story in hard copy.