Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Terebinth Story Archive      A seven-line stanza with this sort of a rhyme scheme is known as a canopus after a poem of that name by Clement Wood. Just in case anyone was wondering...      And in case anyone's interested in my new poetry collection, Two Strikes and I'm Out , it's now available from the fine folks at Island of Wak Wak Press. To be technical, I suppose, it's more a 6,700-word short story told over the course of 63 poems than an actual collection, but nonetheless, there it is. I think we've gotten all the typos out of it at this point, too!

The end of June must mean:      My new poetry book's out!      Not that it's anything as simple as a collection of poems. I mean, what'd be the fun in that? Instead, it's a 6,700 word story told from beginning to middle to end over the course of 63 poems written in a variety of forms and meters. Because that's what we do for fun 'round these parts!      I never intended for it to be a story, actually. In fact, I wrote the "two strikes" separately as part of Zoetic Press's Write Like You're Alive program, a challenge to do something creative every day for a month. So in July of 2018, I wrote 31 poems under the title "Abecedarian," and four years later during August of 2022, I did 31 more poems called "The Lure of the Mechanical."      A little thought, though, showed me that the first person narrator in both groups was the same guy, haplessly flailing after similar things in di...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      And by "now," he means July 11th. That's the date I think we're all currently aiming for to get to end of this thing.      As for the whole "supernatural" versus "preternatural" thing, that distinction's been floating around in the comic since the days when it was actually a comic. Howlett, for instance, talks about it briefly almost exactly 20 years ago near the middle of our 4th storyline, " Dust Bunny ," and it's come up here and there ever since.

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      So, it looks like Kain, Eduard, and Coil against assorted ancient magical dinosaurs. Anyone wanna take bets?

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I hope someone's got a way out of this. Preferably in the next two weeks, too...

The Terebinth Story Archive      Of course, for a full chant royal, we'd need three more stanzas like those two plus a five-line envoi. Maybe next week?