My fic: Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Character Study: Gen

Title: Character Study/Sherlock Holmes: The Fool
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Length: 2000
Rating: Gen
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
For: lands_of_magic Round 9 / Challenge #4: Character Study
Also for: story_works April Flash Challenge: fool
Notes: using the interpretation of The Fool card given in Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Summary: Sherlock Holmes' grandmother gives him a tarot card when he is young. It follows him throughout his life.

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Poet's Corner: two by Justin Phillip Reed

The poet (and yours truly) is from South Carolina (USA). I am listening to Reed's The Malevolent Volume read by the poet. It adds so much to hear the verse spoken. Thanks to redders for the rec.

Carolina Prayer by Justin Phillip Reed

Let the blood if your belly must have it, but let it
not be of me and mine. Let my momma sleep.
Let her pray. Let them eat. Let the reverend’s
devil pass over me. Let the odds at least
acknowledge us. Let the breasts be intact,
the insulin faithfully not far, and let the deep
red pinpoint puddle its urgency on a pricked
fingertip. Let the nurse find the vein the first time.

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My poem: Piscine Teapot: Gen

Title: Piscine teapot
Poetic form: triolet x 2
Length: 120
Rating: Gen
Inspired by: the image below

Behold, this most bold and piscine teapot
on most inauspicious of Neptune’s day!
In so great a storm, no fish will be caught.
But behold, this bold and piscine teapot!
With hot tea and scones, we must be besot;
as gathering dust, line and lure must lay.
Thus, behold, most bold and piscine teapot
on most inauspicious of Neptune’s day!

Behold this noble foe cast as teapot
on this inaugural day, Neptune’s day!
Rain chains us, makes us be where we ought not.
But behold this noble foe cast as teapot;
the tablecloth will be crumbed and bespot
with tea and tears as we, we pine away
and behold this noble foe as teapot
on this inaugural day, Neptune’s day!