New Work: Dual Purpose

Spectral Realms # is now available. This was going to be the last of these journals of contemporary weird poetry and criticism, edited by S. T. Joshi, but Hippocampus Press have announced a reprieve. What is even better news is it contains a sonnet of mine, entitled "Dual Purpose", that I started writing in Quebec and completed in Maine. Also including work by Ashley Dioses, Wade German, Charles Danny Lovecraft, K. A. Opperman and Michelle Claire White, plus poetry and an essay by Leigh Blackmore on the poems of Walter de la Mare, it will keep you mired in unhallowed gloom for months!

"Dual Purpose" is in fact my first sonnet ever. I have simply never found the right idea until now. As it is a comparatively short form, I can only give you the barest taste.

"A lantern casts a shadow in the day,

"And little things of darkness fight for room..."