Unsold Poems for the March 5, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl

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The following poems from the March 5, 2024 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 "Qui Gatta Ci Cova," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."


"Authentic to Your Dreams"
Story Date: Indeterminate
Summary: The supply network of mad scientists developed slowly over time.
87 lines, Buy It Now = $44

Everyone wonders where
mad science came from,
but few people realize
that it didn't "come from"
anywhere at all, rather it
evolved from everywhere
over a long span of time.


"Chemistry Applied to Domestic Objects"
Summary: Dénes the Brewer has discovered his own way of communicating with Toma.
70 lines, Buy It Now = $35

Victor and Igor wandered about
the village, stopping to browse
in different shops along the way.


"Not a Destination, But a Process"
Summary: Liberty meets Dr. G.
227 lines, Buy It Now = $114

Liberty could hardly
believe her luck.

She had just gotten
into Omaha when she
met someone who had
helped her get a day job.


"Tension and Release"
Summary: The Alley-Scan made it possible for people with special dietary needs to eat out safely.
27 lines, Buy It Now = $15


"Utilizing Your Skills and Resourcefulness"
Story Date: 0 A.E.
Summary: Edmund and the Housekeepers for Hope set up camp and trade in survival gear.
84 lines, Buy It Now = $42

There weren't a lot of people
left after the End, but there
were some, and they did
what people always did --
they traveled and traded.


"With the Highest Respect"
Summary: Wo Nagi is an intertribal restaurant in Siouxland.
74 lines, Buy It Now = $37

The restaurant Wo Nagi was
a cornerstone of East Sioux City,
the Iowa side of Siouxland, a thread
connecting the past and present.


Additional poems are available from A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows:

"Slipfast"
longing to disappear completely;
28 lines, Buy It Now = $15

"The Til"
the reservoir of all possible opportunities
37 lines, Buy It Now = $15

"Volander"
the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world
20 lines, Buy It Now = $10

"Fitzcarraldo"
a random image that becomes lodged deep
19 lines, Buy It Now = $10