Building Empires

We're just about to leave Portland via the Empire Builder for home in the Midwest, and the week has passed in a blur of pleasant unreality.  Yesterday I rode in the back of a convertible through Willamette wine country, while meanwhile, in Minnesota, thar be snow.  Arrr.  If it weren't for play rehearsals and 10 days' build-up of mail, it would be even harder to want to go home. 

Catching up on publishing news:
- The gorgeous autumn issue of Goblin Fruit is up, including my poem "Abracadabra":...