Thank you, Ann, John and, especially, Chris for the very warm welcome.
(In fairness, Chris, I think I benefited that quarter from the post-John Hegley slump/lucky draw of a judge who just happened to share my puerile toilet humour. John Hegley hated me. And I've never written a poem so memorable that placed poets in subsequent quarters pay homage to it!)
Very happy to be here amongst so many whose work I know and greatly admire from Flash500/LightenUpOnline/Light Quarterly etc
This challenge is tough - writing a poem in the style of a famous poet is doable, writing an appropriate Christmas list for a famous poet is doable, but doing both in just 16 lines is not easy.
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