Christopher Vera’s Mystic Nebula

I’m sure this math is trivial to most statisticians, physicists and mathematicians, but some friends and I determined how to calculate the edges of any 3 dimensional polyhedral. We used my AD&D dice to verify.

(E * F) /2

where

E = the number of edges on a single face of the shape, and
F = the number of faces on the shape.

For example, a six-sided die has 12 edges, a 20-sided die has 30 edges.

We speculative poets (that is, poets that write about subjects that may or may not exist, such as the fantastical or science fiction) sometimes play the role of forgotten stepchildren locked in the basement while “real” poets collect all the fame and glory (in reality there’s not much of either, even for “real” poets!). So we always love to see our favorite topic being discussed by “mainstream” literary publications.

Check out this article I ran across on Poets.org called Poems about Aliens.

Ironically, if speculative poetry should ever become mainstream, and everyone starts doing it, we cutting edge poets may need to find even more bizarre topics to write about.

If you’re like me, you enjoy writing poetry to music. Its best of we can’t understand the words to the music so it doesn’t influence our writing. try listening to this piece WITHOUT watching the video that goes with it so it doesn’t influence you. Let your mind wander…

Although I’ve used Twitter for some time to communicate, I’ve decided to integrate it with Mystic Nebula.

You won’t find the play-by-play moments of my day here. I wouldn’t dare bore you with that.

But I find Twitter is a great notepad to leave a thought that could in turn become a poem, a story or a work of art.