I have no new news
only the old news
repeating like the blues
repeating like the blues

The latest issue of Dappled Things has a painting by Emily Pastor that is very striking. I had a slow day at work, so I tried to do what she did with mixed results. You can get a copy of magazine for only $10 that comes with several of her other paintings (and one of my stories).

Snow storm where the plains end in New Mexico.

I have a poem in the latest issue of New Verse Review. It’s a rich issue full of very good poems. I haven’t figured out which of the poets are here on Bluesky yet, but maybe you can.

www.newversereview.com/issue-2-1--w...

I sent the final manuscript for Call Out Coyote into Wiseblood Books on Sunday night, the twelfth day of Christmas. Except edits from Wiseblood, it looks like this. I can confidently say this is the best, complete collection of poems I’ve ever written. Coming your way in 2026.

These little prose series one offs by @bellepointpress.bsky.social are a great way to win over readers. Nice design cue, too, on the inside cover of @americangwyn.bsky.social’s “Parricide Blues.”

I may leave this copy some place public. You’ll be hooked in the first paragraph.

Here I am!

As mud in Dumas
Is clay not humus
So boots are tubes
For tibia not humerus.

Words are fun.