I'm hoping to post short notes on each of the poems in "The Sign of the Dragon," working my way through the book one poem per day in what will become a LONG thread.
I'll tag each note #TSOTD_note followed by the title of the poem, so you can look up notes on a particular poem.
✏️🦙🐉
I'll tag each note #TSOTD_note followed by the title of the poem, so you can look up notes on a particular poem.
✏️🦙🐉
January 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I'm hoping to post short notes on each of the poems in "The Sign of the Dragon," working my way through the book one poem per day in what will become a LONG thread.
I'll tag each note #TSOTD_note followed by the title of the poem, so you can look up notes on a particular poem.
✏️🦙🐉
I'll tag each note #TSOTD_note followed by the title of the poem, so you can look up notes on a particular poem.
✏️🦙🐉
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Another update for the curious. I now have 42 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. Still no wars, no battles, and no deaths greater than that of a fish. But there are bleak notes mixed in with the light.
Returning characters include Xau, his guards, his family, Tian, Donal.
Another update for the curious. I now have 42 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. Still no wars, no battles, and no deaths greater than that of a fish. But there are bleak notes mixed in with the light.
Returning characters include Xau, his guards, his family, Tian, Donal.
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
January 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Another update for the curious. I now have 42 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. Still no wars, no battles, and no deaths greater than that of a fish. But there are bleak notes mixed in with the light.
Returning characters include Xau, his guards, his family, Tian, Donal.
Another update for the curious. I now have 42 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. Still no wars, no battles, and no deaths greater than that of a fish. But there are bleak notes mixed in with the light.
Returning characters include Xau, his guards, his family, Tian, Donal.
#TSOTD_note Enlai
- the second of 8 poems spaced through the book that feature the minstrel, Enlai.
- I enjoyed writing these a lot, except that I wrestled to come up with lyrics from Enlai's songs (none in this poem)
- Enlai's one similarity with Xau is his affection for his horse
✏️📖🐉🎶🐴
- the second of 8 poems spaced through the book that feature the minstrel, Enlai.
- I enjoyed writing these a lot, except that I wrestled to come up with lyrics from Enlai's songs (none in this poem)
- Enlai's one similarity with Xau is his affection for his horse
✏️📖🐉🎶🐴
May 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#TSOTD_note Enlai
- the second of 8 poems spaced through the book that feature the minstrel, Enlai.
- I enjoyed writing these a lot, except that I wrestled to come up with lyrics from Enlai's songs (none in this poem)
- Enlai's one similarity with Xau is his affection for his horse
✏️📖🐉🎶🐴
- the second of 8 poems spaced through the book that feature the minstrel, Enlai.
- I enjoyed writing these a lot, except that I wrestled to come up with lyrics from Enlai's songs (none in this poem)
- Enlai's one similarity with Xau is his affection for his horse
✏️📖🐉🎶🐴
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
Update for the curious. It's a month since I began this, and I now have 28 midquel The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. No wars, no battles, no new deaths. At least so far. Some callbacks to past war/death, but much of it toward the lighter end of what it's in the main book...
#TSOTD_note Guarded
This is the second poem in the book, but about the 120th that I wrote. Yes, I wrote the poems out of order, though there were stretches of narrative arcs that I wrote chronologically.
Xau, the central figure, is the first character to be named. I'm glad Gan is second.
✏️🦙🐉
This is the second poem in the book, but about the 120th that I wrote. Yes, I wrote the poems out of order, though there were stretches of narrative arcs that I wrote chronologically.
Xau, the central figure, is the first character to be named. I'm glad Gan is second.
✏️🦙🐉
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#TSOTD_note Guarded
This is the second poem in the book, but about the 120th that I wrote. Yes, I wrote the poems out of order, though there were stretches of narrative arcs that I wrote chronologically.
Xau, the central figure, is the first character to be named. I'm glad Gan is second.
✏️🦙🐉
This is the second poem in the book, but about the 120th that I wrote. Yes, I wrote the poems out of order, though there were stretches of narrative arcs that I wrote chronologically.
Xau, the central figure, is the first character to be named. I'm glad Gan is second.
✏️🦙🐉
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
#TSOTD_note Not So
This poem introduces Mei, Xau's younger (and only) sister, two months after the death of their father and brothers. Mei, correctly, feels overlooked. After this poem, the book also relegates her to the background for over a hundred pages! But she does return.
This poem introduces Mei, Xau's younger (and only) sister, two months after the death of their father and brothers. Mei, correctly, feels overlooked. After this poem, the book also relegates her to the background for over a hundred pages! But she does return.
January 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#TSOTD_note Not So
This poem introduces Mei, Xau's younger (and only) sister, two months after the death of their father and brothers. Mei, correctly, feels overlooked. After this poem, the book also relegates her to the background for over a hundred pages! But she does return.
This poem introduces Mei, Xau's younger (and only) sister, two months after the death of their father and brothers. Mei, correctly, feels overlooked. After this poem, the book also relegates her to the background for over a hundred pages! But she does return.
#TSOTD_note Way-Fort
- Yang Du went inside to shovel more horse shit....
- I like Yang Du, who appears only once (quite a few point-of-view characters are seen only once)
- I enjoy Leong being alarmist about his health
- I enjoy Leong in general
- I perhaps enjoy my own book more than I should
- Yang Du went inside to shovel more horse shit....
- I like Yang Du, who appears only once (quite a few point-of-view characters are seen only once)
- I enjoy Leong being alarmist about his health
- I enjoy Leong in general
- I perhaps enjoy my own book more than I should
October 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#TSOTD_note Way-Fort
- Yang Du went inside to shovel more horse shit....
- I like Yang Du, who appears only once (quite a few point-of-view characters are seen only once)
- I enjoy Leong being alarmist about his health
- I enjoy Leong in general
- I perhaps enjoy my own book more than I should
- Yang Du went inside to shovel more horse shit....
- I like Yang Du, who appears only once (quite a few point-of-view characters are seen only once)
- I enjoy Leong being alarmist about his health
- I enjoy Leong in general
- I perhaps enjoy my own book more than I should
#TSOTD_note Boyhood
Opening lines in the first draft:
Riding with the horse lords that summer,
down from the brackish lakes
and marsh and sedge and rush
to the low easy slopes
of the grasslands,
Closing lines in the first draft:
At the start, Keng
a boy of fourteen.
By the end,
his boyhood gone.
Opening lines in the first draft:
Riding with the horse lords that summer,
down from the brackish lakes
and marsh and sedge and rush
to the low easy slopes
of the grasslands,
Closing lines in the first draft:
At the start, Keng
a boy of fourteen.
By the end,
his boyhood gone.
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#TSOTD_note Boyhood
Opening lines in the first draft:
Riding with the horse lords that summer,
down from the brackish lakes
and marsh and sedge and rush
to the low easy slopes
of the grasslands,
Closing lines in the first draft:
At the start, Keng
a boy of fourteen.
By the end,
his boyhood gone.
Opening lines in the first draft:
Riding with the horse lords that summer,
down from the brackish lakes
and marsh and sedge and rush
to the low easy slopes
of the grasslands,
Closing lines in the first draft:
At the start, Keng
a boy of fourteen.
By the end,
his boyhood gone.
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
For the first time, I returned to the world of "The Sign of the Dragon" and wrote a mini sequence of 8 poems that take place near the midpoint of the main book. I finished today after an obsessed flurry of activity while I had an empty house (barring Sir Cat's good company).
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#poetry. #TSOTD_note.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
Update for those wondering. One week later, and I now have 15 The-Sign-of-the-Dragon poems. The first 8 are a mini sequence; the others are shorter sequences or stand-alone poems. I may get one more written by the end of Tuesday, then likely pause while my daughter's home.
#TSOTD_note Memorials
"We should learn patience,
but the minister measures war
in ounces of gold."
I suppose it is not dignified for me to say this, but I do love Xau so. Rejecting a triumphal arch, and instead writing notes, himself, to the families of footsoldiers killed in the war.
✏️📖🐉🦙
"We should learn patience,
but the minister measures war
in ounces of gold."
I suppose it is not dignified for me to say this, but I do love Xau so. Rejecting a triumphal arch, and instead writing notes, himself, to the families of footsoldiers killed in the war.
✏️📖🐉🦙
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
#TSOTD_note Memorials
"We should learn patience,
but the minister measures war
in ounces of gold."
I suppose it is not dignified for me to say this, but I do love Xau so. Rejecting a triumphal arch, and instead writing notes, himself, to the families of footsoldiers killed in the war.
✏️📖🐉🦙
"We should learn patience,
but the minister measures war
in ounces of gold."
I suppose it is not dignified for me to say this, but I do love Xau so. Rejecting a triumphal arch, and instead writing notes, himself, to the families of footsoldiers killed in the war.
✏️📖🐉🦙
#TSOTD_note Another Week
- first published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
- accompanied by one of my favorites among Gary McCluskey's superb illustrations
- some of my happiest memories are the every-two-years vacations with my father. In place of guards, we went with my mother.
✏️📖🐉
- first published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
- accompanied by one of my favorites among Gary McCluskey's superb illustrations
- some of my happiest memories are the every-two-years vacations with my father. In place of guards, we went with my mother.
✏️📖🐉
July 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#TSOTD_note Another Week
- first published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
- accompanied by one of my favorites among Gary McCluskey's superb illustrations
- some of my happiest memories are the every-two-years vacations with my father. In place of guards, we went with my mother.
✏️📖🐉
- first published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
- accompanied by one of my favorites among Gary McCluskey's superb illustrations
- some of my happiest memories are the every-two-years vacations with my father. In place of guards, we went with my mother.
✏️📖🐉
#TSOTD_note Daybreak
- the first draft of this was written early
- revisions included retitling, shortening, and changing the compass direction
- here's one of the deleted bits
The sailors, awkward,
offered him water,
canvas to wipe his face,
placed a blanket
over his shoulders.
✏️📖🐉🦙🧭
- the first draft of this was written early
- revisions included retitling, shortening, and changing the compass direction
- here's one of the deleted bits
The sailors, awkward,
offered him water,
canvas to wipe his face,
placed a blanket
over his shoulders.
✏️📖🐉🦙🧭
April 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#TSOTD_note Daybreak
- the first draft of this was written early
- revisions included retitling, shortening, and changing the compass direction
- here's one of the deleted bits
The sailors, awkward,
offered him water,
canvas to wipe his face,
placed a blanket
over his shoulders.
✏️📖🐉🦙🧭
- the first draft of this was written early
- revisions included retitling, shortening, and changing the compass direction
- here's one of the deleted bits
The sailors, awkward,
offered him water,
canvas to wipe his face,
placed a blanket
over his shoulders.
✏️📖🐉🦙🧭
#TSOTD_note Training: Stances
The second poem about Xau training with his guards, and another moment we see his grief for his brother Keng. I like the crane, its feathered softness, its stillness.
I've yearned toward, but never experienced, any such connection to people I loved after they died.
✏️
The second poem about Xau training with his guards, and another moment we see his grief for his brother Keng. I like the crane, its feathered softness, its stillness.
I've yearned toward, but never experienced, any such connection to people I loved after they died.
✏️
January 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#TSOTD_note Training: Stances
The second poem about Xau training with his guards, and another moment we see his grief for his brother Keng. I like the crane, its feathered softness, its stillness.
I've yearned toward, but never experienced, any such connection to people I loved after they died.
✏️
The second poem about Xau training with his guards, and another moment we see his grief for his brother Keng. I like the crane, its feathered softness, its stillness.
I've yearned toward, but never experienced, any such connection to people I loved after they died.
✏️
#TSOTD_note Grief
Poem 5 in the book, the 8th to be written. This presents Xau's dialogue without giving the other side of the conversations. Near the end, we witness for the first time Xau's grief for his brothers.
I'm emotionally attached to this poem, especially the bits about Khyert.
Poem 5 in the book, the 8th to be written. This presents Xau's dialogue without giving the other side of the conversations. Near the end, we witness for the first time Xau's grief for his brothers.
I'm emotionally attached to this poem, especially the bits about Khyert.
January 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#TSOTD_note Grief
Poem 5 in the book, the 8th to be written. This presents Xau's dialogue without giving the other side of the conversations. Near the end, we witness for the first time Xau's grief for his brothers.
I'm emotionally attached to this poem, especially the bits about Khyert.
Poem 5 in the book, the 8th to be written. This presents Xau's dialogue without giving the other side of the conversations. Near the end, we witness for the first time Xau's grief for his brothers.
I'm emotionally attached to this poem, especially the bits about Khyert.
#TSOTD_note Polton
In "The Sign of the Dragon" the main characters are compassionate, good people who help each other, but there is also evil loose in this world.
That one skeleton clutching another
so small it must have been newborn.
After writing this one, I wrote a very gentle poem.
✏️📖🔥💀
In "The Sign of the Dragon" the main characters are compassionate, good people who help each other, but there is also evil loose in this world.
That one skeleton clutching another
so small it must have been newborn.
After writing this one, I wrote a very gentle poem.
✏️📖🔥💀
March 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#TSOTD_note Polton
In "The Sign of the Dragon" the main characters are compassionate, good people who help each other, but there is also evil loose in this world.
That one skeleton clutching another
so small it must have been newborn.
After writing this one, I wrote a very gentle poem.
✏️📖🔥💀
In "The Sign of the Dragon" the main characters are compassionate, good people who help each other, but there is also evil loose in this world.
That one skeleton clutching another
so small it must have been newborn.
After writing this one, I wrote a very gentle poem.
✏️📖🔥💀
#TSOTD_note Cure
- I wanted to avoid magical healing, but maggots are fine
- I think this is the first rhyming poem in the book
- A shout-out to F. J. Bergmann, @fjbergmann.bsky.social, who gave the poem its first home in Star*Line and whose editorial suggestions improved it.
✏️📖🦙
- I wanted to avoid magical healing, but maggots are fine
- I think this is the first rhyming poem in the book
- A shout-out to F. J. Bergmann, @fjbergmann.bsky.social, who gave the poem its first home in Star*Line and whose editorial suggestions improved it.
✏️📖🦙
March 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#TSOTD_note Cure
- I wanted to avoid magical healing, but maggots are fine
- I think this is the first rhyming poem in the book
- A shout-out to F. J. Bergmann, @fjbergmann.bsky.social, who gave the poem its first home in Star*Line and whose editorial suggestions improved it.
✏️📖🦙
- I wanted to avoid magical healing, but maggots are fine
- I think this is the first rhyming poem in the book
- A shout-out to F. J. Bergmann, @fjbergmann.bsky.social, who gave the poem its first home in Star*Line and whose editorial suggestions improved it.
✏️📖🦙
#TSOTD_note Interregnum
I wrote the first draft of this poem on August 1st, 2013. It was meant to be a standalone poem. But, four weeks later, I wrote another poem about Xau, and then I couldn't stop.
Line 9 of that first draft hints at Xau's link to horses:
He slept on straw near his horse
✏️🦙🐉
I wrote the first draft of this poem on August 1st, 2013. It was meant to be a standalone poem. But, four weeks later, I wrote another poem about Xau, and then I couldn't stop.
Line 9 of that first draft hints at Xau's link to horses:
He slept on straw near his horse
✏️🦙🐉
January 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#TSOTD_note Interregnum
I wrote the first draft of this poem on August 1st, 2013. It was meant to be a standalone poem. But, four weeks later, I wrote another poem about Xau, and then I couldn't stop.
Line 9 of that first draft hints at Xau's link to horses:
He slept on straw near his horse
✏️🦙🐉
I wrote the first draft of this poem on August 1st, 2013. It was meant to be a standalone poem. But, four weeks later, I wrote another poem about Xau, and then I couldn't stop.
Line 9 of that first draft hints at Xau's link to horses:
He slept on straw near his horse
✏️🦙🐉
#TSOTD_note Help
The first natural disaster (earthquake) in the book. I like Lieutenant Honghui, unexpectedly in command in a hard situation, "who had not known what to do, but had done the best he could." An echo of Xau, unexpectedly made king and also doing the best he can.
✏️📖🦙🐉
The first natural disaster (earthquake) in the book. I like Lieutenant Honghui, unexpectedly in command in a hard situation, "who had not known what to do, but had done the best he could." An echo of Xau, unexpectedly made king and also doing the best he can.
✏️📖🦙🐉
March 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#TSOTD_note Help
The first natural disaster (earthquake) in the book. I like Lieutenant Honghui, unexpectedly in command in a hard situation, "who had not known what to do, but had done the best he could." An echo of Xau, unexpectedly made king and also doing the best he can.
✏️📖🦙🐉
The first natural disaster (earthquake) in the book. I like Lieutenant Honghui, unexpectedly in command in a hard situation, "who had not known what to do, but had done the best he could." An echo of Xau, unexpectedly made king and also doing the best he can.
✏️📖🦙🐉
#TSOTD_note Amber
- another poem written surprisingly early. Originally it had a very different ending that I later decided against:
When he was done,
the wolf followed him back
to his son,
into the songs and legends
of his kingdom,
and the place
she claimed each night
at the foot of his bed.
✏️📖🐉
- another poem written surprisingly early. Originally it had a very different ending that I later decided against:
When he was done,
the wolf followed him back
to his son,
into the songs and legends
of his kingdom,
and the place
she claimed each night
at the foot of his bed.
✏️📖🐉
July 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#TSOTD_note Amber
- another poem written surprisingly early. Originally it had a very different ending that I later decided against:
When he was done,
the wolf followed him back
to his son,
into the songs and legends
of his kingdom,
and the place
she claimed each night
at the foot of his bed.
✏️📖🐉
- another poem written surprisingly early. Originally it had a very different ending that I later decided against:
When he was done,
the wolf followed him back
to his son,
into the songs and legends
of his kingdom,
and the place
she claimed each night
at the foot of his bed.
✏️📖🐉
#TSOTD_note Remembrance
- a quiet poem
- Leong and Xau exchange a few sentences, then ride in silence, remembering Dao and Chong
- sparrows forage in the grass. Life goes on around the incidents of the story.
✏️📖🐉
- a quiet poem
- Leong and Xau exchange a few sentences, then ride in silence, remembering Dao and Chong
- sparrows forage in the grass. Life goes on around the incidents of the story.
✏️📖🐉
August 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#TSOTD_note Remembrance
- a quiet poem
- Leong and Xau exchange a few sentences, then ride in silence, remembering Dao and Chong
- sparrows forage in the grass. Life goes on around the incidents of the story.
✏️📖🐉
- a quiet poem
- Leong and Xau exchange a few sentences, then ride in silence, remembering Dao and Chong
- sparrows forage in the grass. Life goes on around the incidents of the story.
✏️📖🐉
#TSOTD_note Veto
- this is the final poem in the fourth part of the six-part book
- by and large, Xau doesn't forbid Hana from activities, nor would he have forbidden Shazia
- but I kind of love that he does try to stop her riding, and why he does so, and that he changes his mind
✏️📖🐉
- this is the final poem in the fourth part of the six-part book
- by and large, Xau doesn't forbid Hana from activities, nor would he have forbidden Shazia
- but I kind of love that he does try to stop her riding, and why he does so, and that he changes his mind
✏️📖🐉
September 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#TSOTD_note Veto
- this is the final poem in the fourth part of the six-part book
- by and large, Xau doesn't forbid Hana from activities, nor would he have forbidden Shazia
- but I kind of love that he does try to stop her riding, and why he does so, and that he changes his mind
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- this is the final poem in the fourth part of the six-part book
- by and large, Xau doesn't forbid Hana from activities, nor would he have forbidden Shazia
- but I kind of love that he does try to stop her riding, and why he does so, and that he changes his mind
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#TSOTD_note Demon
- this poem was written early -- two months after I wrote the first poem (Interregnum)
- although I tweaked it a bit, the poem stayed close to that first draft, e.g. the first 13 lines and the last 3 lines are exactly the same
- I love Gary McCluskey's illustration
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- this poem was written early -- two months after I wrote the first poem (Interregnum)
- although I tweaked it a bit, the poem stayed close to that first draft, e.g. the first 13 lines and the last 3 lines are exactly the same
- I love Gary McCluskey's illustration
✏️📖🐉🦙
April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#TSOTD_note Demon
- this poem was written early -- two months after I wrote the first poem (Interregnum)
- although I tweaked it a bit, the poem stayed close to that first draft, e.g. the first 13 lines and the last 3 lines are exactly the same
- I love Gary McCluskey's illustration
✏️📖🐉🦙
- this poem was written early -- two months after I wrote the first poem (Interregnum)
- although I tweaked it a bit, the poem stayed close to that first draft, e.g. the first 13 lines and the last 3 lines are exactly the same
- I love Gary McCluskey's illustration
✏️📖🐉🦙
#TSOTD_note Training: Injury
Xau's guards in protective mode after his recent injury.
I like the guards. I like these soft moments like the hopping fight at the end, where nothing is wrong and they are joking around.
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Xau's guards in protective mode after his recent injury.
I like the guards. I like these soft moments like the hopping fight at the end, where nothing is wrong and they are joking around.
✏️📖🦙🐉
March 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#TSOTD_note Training: Injury
Xau's guards in protective mode after his recent injury.
I like the guards. I like these soft moments like the hopping fight at the end, where nothing is wrong and they are joking around.
✏️📖🦙🐉
Xau's guards in protective mode after his recent injury.
I like the guards. I like these soft moments like the hopping fight at the end, where nothing is wrong and they are joking around.
✏️📖🦙🐉
#TSOTD_note Water
- a light scene in a bleak stretch of the book
- this is one of three poems in the book that mentions Xau's fondness for pickled cucumbers
- I was particularly partial to cucumbers (unpickled) as a child
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- a light scene in a bleak stretch of the book
- this is one of three poems in the book that mentions Xau's fondness for pickled cucumbers
- I was particularly partial to cucumbers (unpickled) as a child
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December 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#TSOTD_note Water
- a light scene in a bleak stretch of the book
- this is one of three poems in the book that mentions Xau's fondness for pickled cucumbers
- I was particularly partial to cucumbers (unpickled) as a child
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- a light scene in a bleak stretch of the book
- this is one of three poems in the book that mentions Xau's fondness for pickled cucumbers
- I was particularly partial to cucumbers (unpickled) as a child
✏️📖🐉