Had someone ask me today to help their mum make her first zine. They'd chuck me a few bucks for the effort of course...
I'm kinda tempted but also want to get to more stable place with my day job first, maybe get further with a main non-zine project (like "Haibun to Hell"), and more experience...
I close my eyes
and inhale deeply—
imagine the sting
of salt-sweet air
and feel a wave
wash upon
me, breaking.
Seafoam frothing
from my mouth
as I exhale.
#ThingsToWriteAbout
#Breathwork #SkyPoet
#Poetry #BlueskyPoetry
I am drawn to the shape of your shadow
figure shape forget-me-not
pattern on the pillow of my memory
intensity shared, passionate as
you rebuilt my mind from the darkness,
the longer I look back
the longer the shadow grows
#wipwednesday #poetry #micropoetry #micropoem #poem
Only a smidgen after 7 and I'm already on my third cuppa coffee... absolutely nothing wrong with this plan...
Blight evaporates
mist drawn skyward from my roof,
is there room for hope?
#wildwalkprompt #blight #poetry #senryu #haiku
Scotland. Is magical.
There's a grace in it, a zen to making other people shine. Is this what publishers feel all the time? Just curious.
And is a "yes, I will help but just not right now. Gimme a couple months and we'll keep talking, please and thank you", a good respectful answer?
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2026/06/07/w...
I need to get better artistically, and I definitely am not ready to slow down my pacing on my own stuff just yet. Plus I've been burnt by collaborative work before so I wanna approach it slow.
... But damn it's tempting. Like maybe I could help bring out the best in her work?