Bottle Rockets #28 is out, along with my tanka

Yup, the journal is out. Sadly, I'm too poor to order my own copy!:<  I wish I'd like get a magical raise of double the amount I'm currently making in my day job so I can buy all the books I want. *Tears*

Anyway, here's the fruit of my literary labors. The editor, Stanford Forrester, was really great to work with. The journal is available via subscription here.

the leaves take their time
even when their time
has come . . .
to the branch, a breeze
plucks them effortlessly

Three Poems, Two Publications

I've received a couple of acceptances in the past few days, first is for a tanka of mine. This will appear in print, in the February 2013 issue of Bottle Rockets (#28).

The next are two poems entitled The City is a Conch and Flesh for the Weary, which are about to be released online by Our Own Voice. This publication is based in the US, edited by Remé-Antonia Grefalda and Aileen Ibardaloza-Cassinetto.

For many of my tankas, I'd have wished that contributors' copies would be provided, but I guess that financial constraints prevent this. I'll have to save up to buy copies of the journals in which I appear.