The Dying Bloom

My small novel, The Dying Bloom, is now published, the latest addition to the Pangur Ban Party roster, along with heavyweights like Crispin Best (Go Ninja Go Ninja Go), Chris East (All in Together Now), David Peak (The Dead Space of April), Sam Pink (Bernhard Goetz), J.A. Tyler (When We Take Off Our Heads), Ryan Manning (Softcore Lolitas), Ben Brooks (This Body is My Body [And I Want to Use It]), and many others. I’m big digging the design, and I thank DJ for doing such a great job.

I think from now on, DJ should be a scale one uses to measure greatness. Like, Preservatives by Audri Sousa and A Field of Colors by Charles Lennox and The Zoo, A Going by J.A. Tyler are all 5 DJs, the highest number of DJs possible (DJ, himself, though, being the one and only DJ, is already 5). Also, DJ sent me the Pangur Ban Party print chapbook, and I just finished reading it. The whole thing is dope. My favorite piece in there I think is DJ’s poem “I See Myself”:

"they say that
you see yourself
in other people.

this is
especially true
at your own intervention
or at someone else’s funeral."

That and Adam Showalter's "The Amish Are Safe" is great, as is Crispin Best’s “Portrait of Captain America as a Young Man.” To wit:

“Captain Planet smells terrible. There is lots of washing up to do. Captain Planet has an idea. He puts the dirty dishes on the floor in the shower. Captain Planet feels very proud of his idea as he has a shower.”

Reminds me of a line by Chilean anti-poet Nicanor Parra: “The true problem of philosophy is who does the dishes.”

Give The Dying Bloom a read, and also check out my other small novel, Ox Crossing Drawbridge. Thank you for your time.