Here I am, another slacker apologizing for not posting in months. Life and work keep me busy, many surprises aren’t good, there’s always some repair to be made or needful thing to fetch, and what are all these rooms for but to move through.

As far as last year goes, I did manage to visit my family in the U.S. in October, which was overdue. I may go again soon. Otherwise on the accomplishment front, we paid off our house. Woo hoo! It took 17 years.

Mostly I am dropping in, though, to post my 2021 publications. The bulk of what I published was collaged postcards, a project I started after Hotel Almighty tied up in late 2020. So here goes, with some links:

Hayden’s Ferry Review published two erasures I sourced from Jane Bowles’ novel “Two Serious Ladies” (print only). They also posted photos of my workspaces on their blog, along with my inventory of their contents.

Afternoon Visitor published “Shadows and the shadows of shadows” and “We all live under an assumed name.”

“The best way to the body is through the mind,” “A good cry should not be prolonged” and “Not falling, but landing” appeared online at New Delta Review.

Under A Warm Green Linden published 3 erasures, including “Sleepless Night #63” and two Ben Franklins.

Thrush published “Cold without snow is like nakedness without nostalgia” and “The shape I take smelling hyacinths.”

“You can kill yourself with kindness too” went up at La Vague.

Literary Bohemian published “What shape waits to receive us.”

Miracle Monocle published 3 erasure poems, including “Like a bottle of rosy light.”

I had a handful of postcards at Posit, including “Spite is karma’s handmaid.”

Poetry Northwest did a visual poetry feature with 11 of my postcards.

On the last day of the year, Diagram published one last postcard, “Forgetting is forgiveness enough.”

Thanks of course to the publishers of these pieces. It’s great to find homes for visual poetry and not always easy.