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ysabetwordsmithThe following poems from the November 17, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "The Arc of the Mental Universe," "Everything That Blooms," "In the Shade of the Mighty Oak," "Let the Children Lead Us," and "Autumn's Palette."
"Constant Instability"
Summary: Just as Raymond and Gideon find themselves in not-quite-Kansas, their counterparts wind up taking their place.
412 lines, Buy It Now = $206
Raymond Miller was just rolling up
the sidewalk to his house when
the world spun out of focus,
sick with unfamiliar magic.
He landed with a whump that
made the old scar in his back
blaze with renewed fury.
"The Ones Who Are Challenged"
Summary: Ray and Geber seek new resources to cope with a world lacking both angels and demons.
586 lines, Buy It Now = $293
"What's wrong?" Geber said.
"You look downright awful."
Ray lifted his face from his hands.
"I looked up my house before going
out there," he said. "It doesn't belong
to my mirror-self. A young family
lives there. I have no idea where
any of my -- his -- things might be."
These earlier poems in Not Quite Kansas are still available:
"The Spectrum of Your Being"
Summary: While searching for a reference book, Gideon and Raymond find something totally unexpected.
484 lines, Buy It Now = $242
"Embrace My Fate"
Summary: Gideon and Raymond ask Barb for help with surviving in his world.
446 lines, Buy It Now = $223
"The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds"
Story Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Summary: Gideon and Raymond attract the wrong kind of attention -- and aid from an unexpected angle.
355 lines, Buy It Now = $178
"Constant Instability"
Summary: Just as Raymond and Gideon find themselves in not-quite-Kansas, their counterparts wind up taking their place.
412 lines, Buy It Now = $206
Raymond Miller was just rolling up
the sidewalk to his house when
the world spun out of focus,
sick with unfamiliar magic.
He landed with a whump that
made the old scar in his back
blaze with renewed fury.
"The Ones Who Are Challenged"
Summary: Ray and Geber seek new resources to cope with a world lacking both angels and demons.
586 lines, Buy It Now = $293
"What's wrong?" Geber said.
"You look downright awful."
Ray lifted his face from his hands.
"I looked up my house before going
out there," he said. "It doesn't belong
to my mirror-self. A young family
lives there. I have no idea where
any of my -- his -- things might be."
These earlier poems in Not Quite Kansas are still available:
"The Spectrum of Your Being"
Summary: While searching for a reference book, Gideon and Raymond find something totally unexpected.
484 lines, Buy It Now = $242
"Embrace My Fate"
Summary: Gideon and Raymond ask Barb for help with surviving in his world.
446 lines, Buy It Now = $223
"The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds"
Story Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Summary: Gideon and Raymond attract the wrong kind of attention -- and aid from an unexpected angle.
355 lines, Buy It Now = $178
