The Kickstarter campaign for Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness
The end of the Kickstarter campaign doesn’t mean the end of Cthulhu Haiku
Again, thanks for all the support, everyone. On to other projects!
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Poetry
In 1985, a British Romantic Period Literature class changed my life. The poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats wakened in me a passion for writing. I determined to somehow make a career of it—and somehow feed my children.
Since then I’ve worked exclusively in publishing, first for game companies, now in education. I also continue to write, study, and promote poetry. It’s my opinion that poetry used to belong to the people, until academics stole it. It’s high time to steal it back from them.
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A Last Peek: For Halloween
Lester : October 31, 2012 12:53 pm : Announcements, Poetry, Popcorn PressHappy Halloween! Popcorn Press‘s annual month-long party ends today within the pages of Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness. Here’s one last preview—a masterful poem by Michael Fantina—to provide an idea of what lurks inside, waiting just for you.
Necronomicon
On islands where the sun is masked,
Where only gauzy ghosts are drawn,
In dreams I’m there and somehow tasked
To mark its skies of cinnamon.
Upon its shore strong vines there clasp
An inlaid chest whose oak is wan,
With only one frail rusty hasp,
Shaped like a long-necked crimson swan.
With ease the ancient hasp I break,
To find a tome that sports thereon
A crafty coiling silver snake,
With this word: Necronomicon.
My eyes transfixed I stare and stare
I turn its leaves of thin chiffon,
They’ve weathered well the stagnant air
Coated with basilicon.
Before me now the wyvern’s kiss
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With borrowed hands, she slowly weaves a braid
into her borrowed hair, a different breed
still from her face, her breasts, this pallid bride
to be, this patchwork woman child whose borrowed
womb will someday bear the Monster’s brood.
—Lester Smith
MONSTROUS MONDAY: