warning: ancient crone blood

Just had two poems published in the June, 2011 issue of LYNX: A Journal for Linking Poets (see www.ahapoetry.com for more details about the online journal.) Rights now revert back to me, and so I can share my two poems with you. (They're both tanka, btw.)

[Untitled tanka numero uno]

spring wind
black bird silhouettes
in formation
silver bicycles spin past
a breeze going downhill

[Untitled tanka numero dos]

dragonfly pair
each insect beats four wings
then eight
a child wonders why they're stuck
you and I quiver as one

aka, a short story I just wrote. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I even showed it to my mom (who is notoriously critical of anything I create), and she liked it. I've been wanting to write something involving the Crystal Palace and human zoos for awhile now, and I think I finally worked it in without sounding preachy. (Note to self: check exact exhibitions involved in the Crystal Palace.)

Anyway, it brings me to an interesting quandary about what to do with my work. I want to make it accessible to as many people as possible. I wrote it, I'm proud of it! The internet is pretty damn accessible, and I like releasing it "DRM-free" so to speak.

On the other hand, it would be really cool to be "published-published." I've submitted a few poems and am waiting the requisite amount of months for the first round of what will probably be rejection letters. (I'm cool with that.) Most of the magazines/journals I'm submitting to allow me to repost my work once it's been published. So there's technically no harm in submitting things, and then reposting them here if I feel like it. (Of course, it can take a year before they publish the damn thing.)

I'm writing a novel (slowly), and I think that is probably going to go online and be crowdfunded (if I'm lucky). I'm not feeling the book publishing industry at the moment...

What are other peoples' thoughts? What do you do with your "creative writing"?