Poetic Justice

Occasionally on this blog, I allow for a few diversions from the topic of  SF and alt-history. One of these, as I have posted before, is of my love of writing poety and then reading it at open mics.

So it's only fitting that I thought I'd say how honoured I am to be included in the forthcoming poetry anthology, Poems from Planet Earth, which is a collection of the poems that have been read at the fabled Planet Earth Poetry series in Victoria, BC that I had attended in better days. The trade paperback sized anthology will soon be available in the new year from the kind folks at Leaf Press, and will feature a whole range of poets, from the famous to the unknown (like me).

Here's my contribution... I invite speculation as to what it's about:

But that shouldn't stop you from reading the rest of the fine poets in the book. Go and buy it. I can tell you truthfully, that you will be reading the collected work of the most formidable group of poets in Canada. It has been my distinct pleasure to have been associated with them.

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("Lament"  © 2012, Michael Cnudde)