Bio

Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Silver Blade, Eccentric Orbits, and many other places. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His poem "there are fossils" (originally published in Silver Blade) came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. His play "Moon Rabbit" won Audience Favorite at the Stillwater Oklahoma Short Play Festival in 2023. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.

in
a
foolish
fit pi's
decimals
were calculated
by an ancient algorithm
out a simply ridiculous number of places
hoping some kind of metaphysical message lurked in the infinitesimal
yet all the time wasted provided nothing except a sort of meditation that touched on the inherently