Poem: "The Most Genius Thing That Man Created"

This poem is spillover from the September 3, 2019 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred and previous discussions with dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "stone" square in my 9-1-19 card for the Arts and Crafts Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by librarygeek.  It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Monday Update 4-13-20

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "Brief Bright Flames"
Today's Smoothie (tropical)
Birdfeeding
Poem: "Not a Sudden Problem"
Poem: "The Highest-Paid Professional Women"
Poem: "Their Wings Too Heavy"
Today's Smoothie (pear pineapple orange)
Birdfeeding
Internet Update
Community Building Tip: Depave
Poem: "Happy Little Trees"
Poem: "Happy Accidents"
Today's Smoothie (banana blackberry)
Poem: "As a Form of Cultural Bricolage"
Birdfeeding
Poem: "A Weird Tension"
Birdfeeding
Self-Awareness Question: Learning New Things
Poem: "By the Action of the Muscles"
Poem: "Releasing the Parts from False Position"
Hard Things


Last week's half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics went well. All the Broken Angels poems have been sponsored and posted. \o/ I still have a couple other things to post.


Internet challenges continue, but we have a usable amount of connection now. Email and blogging are at near-normal levels for practical purposes, I'm just trying to minimize the superfluous stuff. I can access the net several times a day. I'm avoiding heavy-duty research, sites with audio or video, and other high-use content. Posting uses more data than browsing, but I have managed near-normal rates on that too.  However, I'm minimizing the online research, so poems posted during limited data have fewer footnotes.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There is one open epic at present.

"To Be Something Stronger and Better" is now complete. Shiv overdoes it a bit, but folks take care of him.

"Pride Against Prejudice" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Find out what happened to Aconite.


The weather has been windy and rainy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of blackbirds, a flock of mourning doves, a flock of sparrows, several cardinals, several dark-eyed juncos, several house finches, several robins, a brown thrasher, and a squirrel.  Currently blooming: daffodils, forsythia, violets, tulips, blue grape hyacinths, cherries, serviceberry. 

Magpie Monday

dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday, with no official theme. Anything goes! Leave prompts, get ficlet.

That means reaching toward a goal of $150 for this event, and if so, I’ll post a bonus: an 8k story in the Strange Family series, doubling the total word count for everyone to enjoy.

Fiction: "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Thanks for Taking Care of Me, Tiny" Part 9

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Unworthy," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys," "Duende," "Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," "Little and Broken, but Still Good," "Byzantine Perplexities," "Up the Water Spout," "The Life of the Dead," "What It Means to Me," "If They Could Just Stay Little," "Anahata," "When the Wheels Come Off," "Against His Own Shield," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Building Towers," "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Shaking Foundations," "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Memorial Day," "Coming in from the Cold: Tuesday: Facing Fears," "Coming in from the Cold: Wednesday: Coping Techniques," "Coming in from the Cold: Thursday: Digging for Answers," "Coming in from the Cold: Friday: Bug Hunt," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past," "What Little Boys Are Made Of," "Rotten Fruit," "Trying to Find Prui," "Life in Quicktime," "Sunday Dinner," "Cafuné," "Fatherboards and Other F-words," "The Artists Among Us," "Keep the Homefires Burning," "Their Old Familiar Carols Play," "Fluffy," "A Leg Up," "Wabbit Season," and "A Painful Process."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Clint Barton, Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Jasper Sitwell, James Rhodes, Natasha Romanova, Tony Stark, Betty Ross, JARVIS, Hulk.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Guns, Food, Bugs & Insects, Triggers, Flashbacks, Panic Attacks, Hurt/Comfort.
Summary: Phil, Steve, Bucky, and Clint visit SHIELD to work with the new recruits. Later that evening, an unexpected trigger throws Bucky into a panic attack.
Notes: Teamwork, Training, Games, Carrying, No Sex, Intimacy, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Friendship, Team as Family, Avengers Family, Food, #coulsonlives.

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12.

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny, blustery, and cool.  I fed the birds.

EDIT 4/13/20:  I trimmed brush from the mow path along the eastern edge of the yard.

Poem: "Survive the Recovery"

This poem is spillover from the January 22, 2019 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from ravan and wispfox. It also fills a square in my 12-31-18 card for the Untranslatable Words Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with ng_moonmoth, fuzzyred, and edorfaus. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.


"Verschlimmbessern (German): To make something worse when trying to improve it"

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Character notes for "Survive the Recovery"

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