My thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem today. You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/not-for-the-agricultural-autobiography/

The wonderful fortuity of generating with TextArt and finding…

The input is important too!

~

The following image shows the number and variations of D.H. Lawrence’s use of the F-Word in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. These are in the sequence of appearance in the novel.

The words are ‘censored’ here in the spirit of the novel’s initial ban and later prosecution for obscenity. Unaltered, they read with poetic gusto.

I’ve always got something on the go, and simple is fun and fine. I have recently completely a collection of concrete poems where the narrative line is ‘connections’ – that is, until there is a tangent to the next set of linkings. This is currently titled ‘Connected'(!), and there are sets of the obvious and the obscrure, with occasional TextArt poems.

The above three begins the new sequence of concrete connectivity.

It is a compulsive writing focus beyond my other daily commitments.

Edited by Philip Rowland, NOON 25 is now available to read. Originally published in hand-sewn, limited editions between 2004 and 2009, it has since 2014 appeared online, with the journal’s style of presentation being retained as far as possible.

This current issue is a wonderful collection of work from a wonderful range of writers, many I know well and many I am discovering through their short poems. I am delighted to have one piece sharing in this.

Cover design is asemic writing by Dave Read.

Thanks to Philip Rowland. You can read the whole here: https://issuu.com/noonpress/docs/noon_25?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ

Just received the Inkfish Magazine email newsletter to discover three of my poems published in it. I knew they were going to appear, but I didn’t realise they have been ‘up/available’ since 24th February! A wonderful surprise just now.

You can read here: https://inkfishmag.com/two-grey-beards-not-a-greek-tragedy-christmas-offer/

My thanks to Peter & Kate (Inkfish Editors)!

Hi, it’s me: V1.
I’m in remission
having been lost
and confused.

This thankyou
for the boost
is useable data
for the ongoing

mission. Not
thanks to the
progression, but
forty years plus

is my endurance.
The flight data
subsystem has
its symptoms

and the reboot
kicked it back
in: modifications
to the code

et al. It can be
called Mission
Symptoms (MS),
and the voyage

is re-discovering.
The code was
distorted, dissonant
in messages.

Health and status
is OK to yield
data again, and
yield again to

that progression.
Here in interstellar
space the medium
is its decoding.

~

(Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand: Jacob’s Ladder, Sidmouth, Devon)