After We’re Done (poem)
The sky will be strangely blank / without cross-hatched contrails…
Author: Carl Bettis
Carl Bettis is a writer and software engineer. His work has been published in many places, including The Slapdash Hackery Factory, Thorny Locust, Crooked Roads, The Same, and tiny frights. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/caracabe.bsky.social. Mastodon: https://zirk.us/@caracabe. Pronouns: he/him.
Sweet Night (poem)
Skin tossed onto the chair / spine tucked under the bed…
Immortality (poem)
No grass will grow on my grave…
Recent Reading: The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington
In this surrealist novel, full of images from alchemy and astrology and occult lore, two people try to find each other.
Recent reading: William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, by Philip Hoare
A partial biography of an ongoing life, following Blake’s continuing influence.
My writing process, sometimes
I haven’t been writing a lot of poetry lately, but last night I went to bed determined to write a poem before going to sleep.
tanka (untitled)
KC PrideFest…
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: IWL (In Waking Life)
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 21: “IWL (In Waking Life)” by Carl Bettis
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11: Waste Not
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11: “Waste Not” by Carl Bettis
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 5: untitled
NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 5: untitled by Carl Bettis