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Hidden
Structures, in a way unforeseen
Fog, sensibilities lost and found again
Wonders, do sometimes cease
Cyphering Motifs
Colors vibrate the spectrum
causing shifts through the phases
leaving only bright reflections
of intimations in its wake
forging ripples in the grand pond
of the universe whose waves
slap against the shores
of consciousness creating
mandelbrots spiraling forever
outward yet snuggly held within
the golden ratio as it gambols
amongst the magical Circle of Fifths
another sleepless night
drowsing in fits and bursts
5 minutes
10 minutes
but never more than an hour
eyes open and staring at the fan
5 rotations
10 rotations
slow wind brushing the sheets
vivid dreams spark and die
5 times
10 times
too many to count in the in-betweens
another sleepless night
Morning Moments
Morning light washes over my eyes
Warm, soft and buttery
Quiet in that brief stretch of time
Flashing across the frozen brush
Layering warmth where it lay
Only colder in the shadows and nooks
My heart is warmed while the wind blisters my cheeks
I should’ve worn pants…
Image by Jacques GAIMARD from Pixabay
‘Incomplete Particoat’
What cerulean light through yonder window breaks?
For it doth burn mine eyes so true
Have the slumbers of my distracted globe lingered opaque
For the world to colour itself so blue?
While palls of Indigo dim the hearts bitter ache
Ought shadows not illuminate our ravin point of view?
‘Thoughts’
Voices floating on the breeze, “What do they have to say?”
“Nothing worth listening to,” shouts the back of the mind.
The wit wonders & listens all the harder but the words drift away.
Rewriting My Third Novel, Black Matilda Pt. 4
Forward movement! Progression! What is that?
I just got some feedback from the latest version of Black Matilda and it was favorable! Some weak spots were pointed out that I was mostly aware of and some that I wasn’t. There were some weird formatting issues that I think we’re all caught but I’ll double-check it again. On the horizon is a list of corrections from the editors that are still in the works. And now I am even more excited to get this one completed!
I have a lot of notes for fixes and additions to book three but they are all mixed up with notes for book four. On top of that, I’ve been hitting a wall in Waltzing Matilda though it’s mostly an issue of what the place the characters are in is like (new place, new rules, new characters… oy). Once I get the big ole edit report, I’ll need my notes.
I know what you’re thinking, “Don’t you have a story bible?”
Well, yes I do but this story has grown exponentially with characters, locations, and motivations since its inception. This is why my notes are such a jumble and things keep slipping through the cracks. And now I realize I need to add even more notes and information for this book and the next one.
Do I know what to do, you say?
Clean ‘em up! Get them all together for each book! Bring that story bible closer to where it should be! So that’s what I did! Well, except maybe the full bible part though it is better.
Is it staring at me again?
Anyway, I am doing all the things to make it better! And I can feel the finish line!
Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay
The Fun of Switching to a New Machine
Is it secret? Is it safe?
Is everyone staying indoors and only going out for the random grocery run? That’s what we’re doing here in the bunker. It’s kind of surprising how quickly we go through milk when we only use it for coffee. Like, why so much?
But I digress…
Before all this excitement kicked in, I had to order a new laptop. The old workhorse was struggling daily and its OS is a thing of the past. She’s still a great machine and kicking right along. But I’ve read enough horror stories of authors and artists losing all of their work when the machine bricks. I had a couple scares last year with the old one struggling to boot up and she held a lot of invested time, thoughts, ideas and all manner of other things.
So how is the new one? She is pretty solid though many of my external accoutrements are umm… old. Let’s just say I’m glad deliveries are still coming in with the odds and ends I’ve had to pick up to keep close to the same setup.
But it’s all together! Everything works! Well except some apps I’ve been using for virtual write-ins and author collaborations. I’m still poking my toes into that bizarreness and crossing my fingers for a solution.
All in all, a mostly painless switch. Mostly…
Image by aytuguluturk from Pixabay
Faustian Liturgies
Footsteps lingered in the threads of the carpeting
As the sound of your voice echoes back from the walls
Fingernails scratched into the wood of the moulding
When invocations mingled amongst the outer squalls
Patterns forged from shards of decorative pargeting
While the ropes bite deeper when the victim crawls
Where visions of monsters lie within the beholding
Bitter the poison on the tongue that it scalds
The grinding of steel while it is sharpening
Ever louder, the darkness calls