the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

  Brand new publication--and happy to say of poetry this time! Neither poem is new, but both were unpublished--until now. I've never actively sought to be published. Usually, the calls for publication come within my radar, and I may submit something.  Whenever I got published, it rarely occurred to me to share the news with others. But when I was on my solitary break at the end of the year, I felt two things that I had been somewhat suppressing for a long time: to express the things that are within me, and to share them with a wider audience, as I used to. Because that's what the creative impluse is, isn't it? The spirit within a person expressing, to channel what is in the other also wanting expression. So for the first time, I actively searched for venues to share my work in, and this is the first fruit of it. Now that they're officially published, I can post the final versions of the two poems. I first published the draft of the first poem (with the context)  here...