notes & things | 8/27/2025

Tonight, with the windows open and the sound of late summer cicadas, it truly felt like that strange middle of August ennui stage, where its still summertime for all intensive purposes, but in a week, the light will be just a little different. Tonight, at 8pm as I wrapped up my writing work for the day, it was approaching full dark. The shorter days feel sudden in September, just like the lengthening ones do in the spring months, but really, its gradual until you really notice it one day. On the cusp of September, I have many things planned for the new month, including digging into a new poem project. 

I've been working on an article on junk journaling for Classpop!, which I haven't done in a while, tending toward more digital artwork of late outside some random watercolors every once in a while. I have been hoarding ephemera like a mouse with a tiny nest of dried flowers, postcards, etc I hopefully will get to use as fall creeps in. Tomorrow, hopefully I can polish that off and work on some layouts that have been lingering unfinished in the chaos. 

I am working on some new little bits for Patreon as well in the form of collage postcards that will accompany the September mailing. I sent off the last of the August packages the other day and am excited to get to share not only books and poems, but also art this way in the form of some prints, postcards, bookmarks, and stickers (you can subscribe to the paper bundle tier that includes all this for only $13 a month.) There will be some kind of print edition included in each mailing including a luxe hardcover edition of EXOTICA I put the finishing touches on yesterday. October, if I can make it happen logistically, is another little surprise Patreon-exclusive. Having closed the lid on the CLOVEN project, there is that to return to in September to start the road to publication. I was aiming for the new year, but if I move swifter through the process, some early copies may be available as quickly as November.  I will be showing off the cover design for that soon. 

This past week has bought some rejections from that big batch of submissions earlier in the summer, but some poems did appear in the Tide Driven issue of The Solitude Diaries. These are some of the sea-inspired poems of DEEPWATER of which there are more out in the submission wilds that will hopefully find harbors. 

 

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