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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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