[Edit: Deadline extended to September 15th, 2013]
That’s as much the tone, or more, than the substance. A departure point…from left field.
Squirrelly poems. Those tangental to space. Absurd. Offbeat goats. Wondrous. Whimsical. Funny, kind. An offbeat optimistic. Mouse-sized flash fiction. Surreal. Silly. Vispo. Amuse me. (Hints: limericks do not amuse me. Dead squirrels need not apply.)
So, this here is a call for a “Squirrels in Stetsons Take Over Earth”, (or the “wor(l)d” or something) [flip over chapbook and it’s] “A Goat on Mars”.
Two covers. Some sort of woodblock look. If I can get someone to transfer the image in my head to ink.
At least one of of a squirrel. Why? Love the critters. There aren’t that many species more adaptive than people, or who look better looking than us in a tux. Or a tux and a stetson.
With their chocolate brown eyes batting their eyelashes like Zsa Zsa Gabor, they can leap small buildings in a single bound. Squirrels can do trigonometry better than you. They can probably do your taxes if there were nuts in it for them. Should there be a nuclear power plant incident, they may take over our homes, collecting rents from cockroaches and rats while making a little money on the side from fixing the results at their small scale casinos.
I’m thinking submissions accepted as of now to pagehalffull [at] yahoo.com with a subject line of “Goats”, deadline of Aug 15th, with a goal to it coming out this fall with my phafours press.
A 20 word bio included would help facilitate as well, or we can work that out if its among the poems that work together with the others that come into something interesting.
May I ask if the poem about squirrels has to be previously unpublished?
They can be previously published. Where that’s the case I’d like to credit the original publication.