Most of my writing friends concur that years in which we publish books are slower years for publishing in journals and magazines. Much of it has to do with a redirecting of energy into the galley proofing, party planning and reading and interview promoting that comes along with a new book. So with the release of The Erotic Postulate, 2014’s been a slow year for work appearing in journals, but here is one final publication for the year, a poem from my unpublished collection Smite & Spoon called “There Were Turtles,” in the new issue 23 of Memorious.