Two new poems published!

 April showers bring May...poems? Or, well, given the lack of rain for most of April around here, maybe it's April droughts that bring poetry. Anyway, I've had two poems come out this month!

The first is "Lesser Zodiacs" in Merganser Magazine. Their fifth issue was published at the beginning of the month. The idea for it was sparked by some art another poet shared, where the artist imagined zodiac-style art for constellations that don't get to be part of the usual signs. I confess to paying little attention to the recognized zodiacal signs, but (so?) I had a lot of fun imagining the other signs that might go under-appreciated.

The second poem came out in the middle of the month--"The River of Naming" in Orion's Belt. This one came from me being playful with linguistic terminology and the water cycle. The stanzas alternate here--not in meter or form (it's free verse) and not in point of view or other things I might usually play with in fiction writing, but in voice and register, with the alternating stanzas addressing some "fisher of words." Which is fun. I think.

Enjoy, all you Readers of Words!