Mark Francis

Joined September 2021

88 stories

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Published translator of verse and original writer of haiku, senryu, lyric, occasional and genre poetry and speculative fiction.

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clouds
too real, whatever that means--clouds breaking over human endeavor
By Mark Francis25 days ago in Poets
turning
snow rain sun and now scattered shoots spiking swirled earth calendar reads, March
By Mark Francis26 days ago in Poets
Emergence
from snow's grasp tulips emerge out emerald shells more color promised
By Mark Francisabout a month ago in Poets
Winter Menagerie
evening snow in heaps curled under stars like basking bears, seals, in spotlight
By Mark Francisabout a month ago in Poets
Blackout
lights are gone down, out. devices dead; fridge off. stars, though, shine half-frozen
By Mark Francis2 months ago in Poets
Rage
we're incited against dying night but often told to hold our tongues in the broad daylight just keep
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Fingers stiff. Runner-Up in Small Heat Challenge.
fireside fingers stiff you open to page where sits a small red flower
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Scrambling
furball scrambles up iced branches in the bleak wind ...knows of warm nest hole
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Storm Spirits
fog and drizzly chill storm spirits will determine if icy or clear
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Inside
back inside we pried fingers from stiff gloves, warmed them against each other's
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Harvest
knew it, when scarecrow stood frazzled dusted in white and the stalks bent down
By Mark Francis5 months ago in Poets
You Are Quite Something
you are quite something! our very first nightlight, and the ever-cycling lunatic of heaven. who doesn’t think so,
By Mark Francis5 months ago in Poets