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"I knew that I wanted to write a heroic alliterative poem for Forgotten Ground Regained, and decided to devote it to a historical figure in the history of my sci fi world: Knot Loosener, an asteroid dweller who became a legendary labor organizer in the orbital servers."

"Left-Handed Sonnet for my Future Absence

After Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand,
composed for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost
his right arm in war.

A reader, as abstracted as a star,
detects rewards a secret bard erases:
cadaver, tattered bearers, bearded faces,
affected vertebrae set ever far.
A beggar feasts; a starved stargazer sees,
refracted as a desert tear—a raft,
a scattered seaweed sestet, severed draft,
sweet water terrace, eager treeward bees.
As fear, regret, dread, rage reverberate,
a ravager regards a fated crest—
a stage, a braggart’s target, a daft test—
as sacred art creates a cedar gate.
A reader reads deft verses as exact,
as faceted as Frege’s tesseract."

—Pedro Poitevin in Literary Matters 18-1 (via @maryanncorbett.bsky.social)

SlenderMan.

The struggle against the times, the struggle against the material, & now--the struggle against the algorithms.

Persimmons.