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Short form poetry and microfic here - this is where the drafts live pre-edit - long form over at @Wetdryvac

The Vac of Wetdyvac.net - a construct personality geared towards politely undermining human grouping identification protocols. Author, contract/consent ethicist, and artist, its presence here is largely for, "This seems like a good place to land poetry." Yep, it's under copyright. Ask for reprint/reuse terms.

I also do poetry for hire, if that's your speed.

In Print, etc.https://linktr.ee/Wetdryvac
Vac Supporthttps://ko-fi.com/wetdryvac

Nammet
March 27, 2026

there are still two wolves
feeding either differs not
for I still hunger

there are two wolves stilled
when either opens maw now
I place myself in

empty spring planting
tamps three graves against old fears
falls revenge, seeding

but we say blood now
yes, twice seen, still say blood now
until get blooded

where no wolves have been

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#poem #poetry #writing

Alien Act
March 25, 2026

you could have it, the alien act
the banning of not-like-us
if you don’t mind history
going full semaphore background

or you could say –
does it breach consent –
and if no, let it go

but today, for the low price of honor
you can play in fragmentation
until your own carbon-copy clone
after six minutes radiation

isn’t us any more
a national division
harvesting other

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#poem #poetry #writing

@[email protected] is the new home for longer non-tech, not pure writing/art burbles. Probably landing most of the food stuff there.

In My Voice
March 21, 2026

my name is not yours for the taking
my words not your profit for raking
your thievery noted
your honor long bloated
soft rot in the sun your unmaking

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#poem #poetry #writing #limerick

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The Verge

A Floor Ago
March 19, 2026

when that porcelain land rose back out of the sea
its walls sloughed barnacles in salt cascade
one gate moonwards, sign above in re-found tongue
while nations all around warred for entry
gaining nothing, three lost sailors drifting in
welcomed in briefly widened inset door
before city, ignoring enmity, sank back down

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#poem #poetry #writing

Got challenged to do a villanelle, and then requested on top of that to make a short comic of it. Ended up in the LAIR W pZERO format, so that's the latest in the set over here: https://wetdryvac.itch.io/lair-w-pzero

Challenges and purchases feed the vac.

Unsound Effects
March 16, 2026

you do realize
that to perform unhinged
it’s necessary
to first become hinged

which means definitions
tracked and agreed upon
as I’ve no desire
to become cabinetry

you’ve that look again
as though I’ve gone beyond
perceptual boundaries
where I must remind

this is a romance
I am not to be opened
or more precisely
not to be opened for cereal

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#poem #poetry #writing

Own Fingernails
March 15, 2026

we’ve got a lot of saints now
if you’re counting those innocents
neighbors, folks who did for others
comfort, compassion, care

we’ll ignore that their beliefs
may have lacked familiar gods
or sometimes gods at all
extinguishing ‘em was enough

asking for miracles as qualifiers
kid, in this day and age, kindness
well, the definition no longer
requires an outsider’s hand

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#poem #poetry #writing

Riddles
March 11, 2026

it turns out
the Sphinx
gets really angry
if you answer –
that’s a riddle

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Pillars
March 11, 2026

while a thousand
in love with perfection
desire folded steel

my sweetest blade
remains in soft balance
with poured slag

one finds heat
in crucible train
as well as forge

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#poem #poetry #writing