Mark Francis

Joined September 2021

84 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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Tortured Haikuist. Top Story - June 2024.
what's going on here? grass is green, bushes in bloom as if life matters ocean of blossoms billows a high cherry tide
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
A Natural History
we went and arrived by ancient subway the car loudly rattling through all its steel bones –our much softer ones did the same–
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Eclipse: A Meditation
even through this shape-shifting spring– cloudy, bright, mild, full of storms, blooms–could I look once clearly at us and
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
in the event. Top Story - April 2024.
early on we assumed a dragon came to eat the sun light itself threatened by the cosmos in our later enlightenment
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Gray Fall
Downing news and coffee, hands may shake though there’s really nothing wrong with you at all in needing an alarm clock to awake.
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Glide
in flats heels or bare you glide in, through, round. dancing our favorite season
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Sleight of Hand
they asked for ID which he somehow confused with his sperm donor card
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Old New Question
She said, “You're so cold!” He answered, “Temperature, or analytics?”
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
The Calling Card of the Wild
cat scratched up his chair left tufts in corners, on books-- good he doesn’t clean!
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
Extraterrestrial Faux Pas
when the aliens came at last, they didn’t stop-- but sped on faster
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Poets
The Lord of the Rings: The Cinematic Trilogy
A movie is never the same as the book--yet can render its own full world. Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth accomplishes this through enthralling sets, admirable heroes and heroines, terrible villains, and inspired scenes of comradeship, battle, and hard-won peace. Add in homage to imaginary languages and histories.
By Mark Francis2 years ago in Critique
Last Call
They sat late at a bar that was bare but for them and the shot set out for each. “I was true to my word,” he said. “And I… to mine,” she said in turn.
By Mark Francis3 years ago in Poets

Mark Francis

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Tortured Haikuist. Top Story - June 2024.

A Natural History

Eclipse: A Meditation

in the event. Top Story - April 2024.

Gray Fall

Glide

Sleight of Hand

Old New Question

The Calling Card of the Wild

Extraterrestrial Faux Pas

The Lord of the Rings: The Cinematic Trilogy

Last Call

Achievements (2)