Writings

It’s been a bit of a dry year for publishing speculative poetry. Speculative anything, really. I definitely haven’t been writing as much about things beyond the ordinary, and I haven’t had much luck with submissions. But I’m pleased to say, that I finally have a poem about a spaceship and her single passenger flying through the stars.

It started as something fun. The Daily Drunk, a lit mag who specializes in merging pop culture and writing, was putting together an anthology about Marvel superheroes and villains. I was interested, but the day job was getting crazy, and I didn’t have much creative juice in the evenings. But a poem about Kitty Pryde kept rattling around in my head.

It’s no secret. My travels fuel my writing. We stayed close to home this year, and it was a good reminder that there are still new places to explore here in our own backyard. So, yes. The Ghost Reservoir in this poem is a real place. And yes, I loved discovering and visiting it for the first time this year.

Around February 2021, the US was going through a cold snap which spawned a number of articles about what alligators do in order to survive the frigid temperatures. The pictures always showed a scaly snout poking up out of frozen water which sparked a small poem which found a home in the Swampland-themed inaugural issue of Moss Puppy Magazine.