I wish everyone would stop using the words reject and submit. I haven’t used either of them myself for years, except in statements like this one. You can’t get 85 people onto a 36-seater bus! Don’t let it worry you.
— Sally King, editor of Poetry Scotland

I'm October's Featured Poet over at Babaylan Speaks! Please enjoy the poems found over there, including September's Featured Poet, Nick Carbo, of Carbonator.

Putting the ms together is revving up my anxiety levels.

my poems are a worry

I stay up with the light on
wonder who they're with
at this time of night

Postcard from Christine and the first one from Brianna today. So good!