Field Recordings

It's 250 plus days into the quotidian project. I rather enjoy it; the freedom of throwing absolute care out the window and writing a poem based on a day's rhythms and images, or not. Character poems. Personae. Dramatis Personae. I like a good lyric. Short, compact, musical. I enjoy iams, and rhyme. I've had fun letting the throat rag itself out a bit. There's plenty of bad poems, and mis-fires. Those looking for a little Schadenfreude will find much to chuckle about. Still, lots of drafts and lots of potential. For those fascinated with the Accomack county serial arsonists there are several poems set in the emotional landscape of the county during the height of the arsons. Broadkill Press will issue Black Narrows (potential cover art above*), a collection of poems centered in a fictionalized marshpunk black market community. Death is a prominent feature, as is loss, generational poverty, the marsh, steampunk motiffs, and moments that I hope transcend marshlif...