Mark Francis

Joined September 2021

82 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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Runner-Up in Quadru-haiku Challenge

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Fingers stiff
fireside fingers stiff you open to page where sits a small red flower
By Mark Francis6 days ago in Poets
Scrambling
furball scrambles up iced branches in the bleak wind ...knows of warm nest hole
By Mark Francis12 days ago in Poets
Storm Spirits
fog and drizzly chill storm spirits will determine if icy or clear
By Mark Francis13 days ago in Poets
Inside
back inside we pried fingers from stiff gloves, warmed them against each other's
By Mark Francis13 days ago in Poets
Harvest
knew it, when scarecrow stood frazzled dusted in white and the stalks bent down
By Mark Francis2 months ago in Poets
You Are Quite Something
you are quite something! our very first nightlight, and the ever-cycling lunatic of heaven. who doesn’t think so,
By Mark Francis2 months ago in Poets
On a Strange Planet
Call it, Halloween that's what the locals do, or Doppelganger Day.
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Readings
but it's stars, Tarot, that we've met, and gone from that. can't predict the cards
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
She
she might be a witch judging mostly by her brew of sharp eyes, curves, chants
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
Don't
DON'T read scary books, or whistle past graveyards--don't, once October starts
By Mark Francis3 months ago in Poets
grains
grains through wood, in sand the physics of humbleness some carpenter knows
By Mark Francis12 months ago in Poets
Inner Light
An unedited low res point and shoot pic from an early digital camera, circa 2012, at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
By Mark Francis12 months ago in Photography