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Forgotten Ground Regained

Contributor

Michael Helsem

Websites: linktr.ee/graywyvern, graywyvern.blogspot.com, and graywyvern.tumblr.com. graywyvern on Bluesky
Michael Helsem writes, "Blurbwise I usually go with: "M.H. was born in Dallas in 1958. Shortly thereafter, fish fell from the sky." He is the author of the poetry chapbook, "Raps Clack Calcspar", from Slough Press, 1989, and various other poems.
Poetry on this site:
Recordings:
  • Plebian
  • Omertá
  • Do you know the way to Ziq-Zhafei?
  • Cthulhu Eldritch Horror Final Form in the Inaugural Issue
  • Iftar in Issue 4, Fall, 2024
  • Under the Eye in Issue 5, Winter, 2025
  • Rafflesiastes in Issue 7, Summer, 2025
  • "viaticum" in Issue 8, Fall, 2025
Books:
  • George Johnston's "Boon"
  • Merope: A Poem in Drottkvætt
  • The Beowulf Poet Speaks -- also published in Illuminations of the Fantastic, 17, Epic Poetry: Forgotten Ground Regained
  • Drapa for Roxie
Other poems:
  • An untitled poem in Otoliths
  • Gargoyle Rain
  • Woofus Takes
  • Palestinian Penalties
Blog Posts:
  • Getting your feet wet in Old Norse prosody.
  • The Impossible Meter
  • Pieces of Cosette, A Lost Early Twentieth-Century Alliterative Practitioner
More of his alliterative verse can be found at graywyvern.blogspot.com. A great deal more (much of it highly experimental in style and content) can also be found on his account on Bluesky using the hashtag #rumramruf [e.g., “Baudelaire: Plumes et pluies”, “Vladborn vale …”, “Fearless squirrel …”, “unruly witness”, “astral parking lot”, “riddle not to be solved”, “the dying kept at a distance …”, “all day yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday”, “holiday but not for me …”, “down among the nature fakers ...”, “pergola”, “werewolfportal-pilled”, “the hostile half-masted ...”, “selfcare falters …”, “rabbit-dusk …”, “pencil on good paper …”, “who would hear in the angel orders”, “greenish ochre grokthwart”, “the dread-bundled dragnet”, “snapshots of a snide continuance”, and “multi-tier response” ]
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