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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2006-02-24 07:53 am

Bemildred*

My poem, "Night Train: Heading West," is going to be in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX.



My bemildredment is small and personal and has to do with the fact that I'm not a poet and I know I'm not a poet. This is the only poem I've written in ages and ages (practically since the Second Punic War), and I doubt--but of course cannot discount the possibility completely--I'll ever write another one.

It is not a complaining bemildredment, mind you. Nor is it a wtf are they thinking? bemildredment. Just ... not what I expected somehow. Life is odd.


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*iirc the name of the third bat in Pogo--either that or my post-con-crud is giving me delusions.

[identity profile] mroctober.livejournal.com 2006-02-24 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! Since I'm not familiar with the piece, in which portion of YB will be featured? Also, why not take a moment and tell us unwashed masses how you were inspired to write the poem.

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2006-02-24 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't happen to know, and it could be either.

The poem itself comes from taking the train to Minneapolis.