I am three bags, a cooler, and a travel-mug almost out the door, but before I go, I have to squee over having received my contributor's copy of [GROWLING SOFTLY], a chapbook now available from Blood Pudding Press that includes two of my poems. Juliet is creating each and every copy to be one-of-a-kind, and I am delighted with mine -- the odd shine of the brown paper, the slightly raggedy blue-purple ribbon, the tag of a skeleton in a smock on the back cover with the legend "Magical Tempest," the provocative collage inside the front cover (titled "Pure Sweet Pulp")...

And the editor's note was written inside a Vanessa Valencia notecard that shows the interior of a cafe with a 50s-ish sign for the "Atomic Coffee Co.: Caffeinated on a Quantum Break," with a cartoon woman with messy black hair balancing odd things on her head... (Consider that Juliet's not met me personally, it's a trifle eerie, in fact...)

And, of course, lots of new poems to read! And I'm described as "sweetly saturated," which tickles me no end. It won't be everyone's cuppa, of course, but I do think some of you might find it a treat. Please go see!

*bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce*